Sorry I didn't post yesterday.
Plan for the next update to be on Sunday or Monday.
Anyways here is the next chapter!
Part Four
How many days it had been, Hiccup didn't know. The floor had become his friend as he laid, unable to move.
Why didn't Viggo just kill him? He was dead enough already.
Astrid loathed thinking about how she just left Hiccup. She could've fought. She should've fought. The only thing she thought about was breaking into the base and rescuing Hiccup, even if the riders opposed the idea, which they would. Stoick said it would be too risky, so now he's constructing a "better" plan. Something about surrounding the enemy, then trapping- augh! That would take forever! They had to save Hiccup now, and it seemed that Astrid was the only one who knew it.
Later on that night Astrid snuck away to the enemy island.
I have to save Hiccup. She told herself.
The island was dark. The only light to guide her was the moon, but the clouds blocked it making her think that the clouds didn't want her to go. Maybe she shouldn't- but Hiccup! She had to. Astrid couldn't be herself without him.
Inside the base it was even darker. She quickly tiptoed her way through the building, looking for an entrance that would lead her to Hiccup.
Then, a voice filled the corridor. One that Astrid hoped she wouldn't hear.
"Hello, Astrid," Viggo said, making Astrid very uncomfortable.
She whipped around, raised her ax, and charged at the villain. Viggo didn't flinch, he simply raised his hand and said, "He isn't here."
She stopped, processing what he had said. "What?"
"Hiccup isn't here," Viggo lied, but Astrid didn't know that. "He died this morning due to the infections on his back."
No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Astrid thought. I- I was too late.
Guilt rose over the warrior, and she fell to the ground. Too shocked to cry.
Viggo walked towards her ax, pushing it away, to prevent her from fighting back.
"Too bad you're going to die to," Viggo laughed at his victory as dragon hunters surrounded Astrid, making her their prisoner.
Astrid didn't struggle, partly because she was struggling to believe that Hiccup was gone, then the rest being if Hiccup wasn't here, what did she have left to fight for? They dragged her off to a cell not too far from Hiccup, who was not yet dead. Viggo was right though- infections were developing and if he wasn't treated or rescued soon, he would die.
…
By the time the sun filled the sky with orange beams, the riders had searched the whole island for Astrid, although they knew where she had gone- to get Hiccup. Only on rare occasions Astrid failed, but only because she was on her 'Save-Hiccup' one track mind.
Stoick was furious. Why couldn't she at least get the rest to go with her, or just listen to his plan before sneaking off. Now that Astrid was gone it would make it a whole lot harder to rescued Hiccup, and now Astrid too; but they wouldn't give up!
It was plan Sneak-Capture-And-Rescue. Named by Ruffnut and Tuffnut, Starting as soon as the hunter ships left the bay they would set the ships on fire, knock out all the hunters, and capture the Grimborn brothers, then find Hiccup and Astrid. All were Seventy-five percent sure it would work.
Only hours later the hunter ships were docked, and sent off to sea. To Tuff's, Ruff's, and Snotlout's delight, they got to set them on fire while the rest made their way towards the island to begin eliminating the rest of the dragon hunters.
Not too many hunters were left outside when the riders were all re-united. As they moved their rescue party inside, it became harder to dodge the arrows. The small corridors favoring the hunters. It was only time that was taken away from the riders after getting past a good fifty hunters.
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Hiccup's back began creating scabs over the dagger wounds, but were so infected every time he breathed he felt them threatening to tear open.
Last night he heard footsteps- dragon hunter footsteps- march down the stairs. It scared him so much thinking that they were coming for him, but when they didn't he wondered why they had come. While he thought throughout the night, he swore he heard someone else breathing. He would've spoke out, but it hurt too much.
If he could just get better, maybe they could save him, or he could save himself.
Starting now, Hiccup didn't want to die. If there was at least one other person near him, they didn't deserve to die. If they were a dragon rider, they should have to go through the torture he had gone through.
The stomping down the stairs returned, but once again didn't come to him. They marched away from him, and stopped in front of another cell. Hiccup heard one of them rummaging to find the right key to the door, then a voice. A girl's voice.
"What do you want?" She snapped.
She sounded familiar, but where-Astrid! This set Hiccup off. Out of all the people Viggo would capture, he chose Astrid.
"Viggo wants yeh," They said, just like what Ryker had told Hiccup.
Hiccup forced himself to get up, or at least get as close as he could to the door, which wasn't too far away. His back screamed in pain, as he moved the five inches to the door. His forehead pressed up against the cold bars, as he saw the hunters grabbing Astrid out of a cell.
"A-ast-trid," Hiccup mumbled, hoping it was loud enough for her to hear.
It was, Astrid moved her head around looking for who had said her name. Then, her eyes fixed upon Hiccup.
"Hiccup!" She yelled, almost breaking out the hunters grip. "You're alive!"
The hunters pulled her up the stairs, and Hiccup heard her helplessly struggle against them.
He's alive! Astrid thought. Now she had something left to fight for. Oh, Viggo's going to pay for lying to me!
Minutes later more stomps echoed down the stairs, this time coming for him.
The door opened, and two hunters grabbed Hiccup by his arms, and literally dragged him up the stairs.
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The riders stopped in the middle of the hallway, where Ryker's dirty boot pressed against Hiccup's back, and Ryker's sword pressed against Astrid's neck, her arms and legs bonded.
"Don't come any closer!" Viggo's voice rang out.
