Hello everyone! I'm sorry for the wait for this chapter, but by the time I had finished writing it last night, I didn't have the time to edit it. So, I edited it this afternoon and am posting it now. It is my longest chapter by far, so I hope it makes up for the wait.

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Without further ado, here is Chapter 4!

Days.

If it hadn't been days, it had certainly felt like it. Hiccup thought that he would have found a way out of the situation he managed to find himself in yet again. However, it seemed that Alvin had learned from his past mistakes. Hiccup couldn't even remember the last time he actually saw daylight. He was trying to find a way out of the cell he was locked in when he heard footsteps coming from down the hallway.

"Ready or not, runt, Alvin wants to talk to you," one of the guards called out. Hiccup knew he was talking to him and he also knew that the guard didn't need to know that he was trying to dig a way out of his cell. When the guards reached the cell, they opened the door and Hiccup knew what was next: they tag teamed. One of them grabbed him and the other put the bag over his head. He stopped fighting them doing that after the third time they came in. After all, resisting it just brought him more pain.

They led him down the hallway to where Alvin was waiting. Hiccup didn't blame them using the bag. With the last few times Alvin had managed to kidnap him, Hiccup had been able to get out only because he knew the layout of the island. So, by making it to where he doesn't know the layout made it way harder for him to make an escape plan.

As soon as he heard the low laugh, he knew that he was at Alvin's office. He tried not to think about the last time he was there to "talk."

When they walked into the room and removed the bag, Hiccup knew that something as different. After all, the last two times Alvin had summoned Hiccup, he tried to get him to explain how to train dragons and was met with silence and a bit of snarkiness. However, he could sense that Alvin was smugger than the last few times.

"Hello, Hiccup. Why don't you sit down?" Hiccup instincts were telling him to run, but he knew that his calm would give him an advantage in any situation. So, he sat down, knowing that he should save some of his sass for a later time, possibly in the same conversation. Alvin seemed surprised that he didn't fight sitting down, but continued on with what he was saying. "So, I am going to ask you one last time, Hiccup, how do you train dragons?"

Hiccup just looked at Alvin. "What do you think the answer to that question is? Think long and hard if you need to."

Alvin sighed, almost as if he was regretting something. Hiccup had no idea why he seemed more sad than angry at this. "Well then, Hiccup, I am afraid that you leave me no choice."

Hiccup was beginning to become curious, yet his instincts were still telling him to run. "No choice to do what?" Hiccup asked cautiously, doing his best to not appear scared so he could maintain control of the situation.

Alvin waved at some of the Outcasts who were in the room. Not even a minute later they came back in with a large tub of water. Hiccup had a guess at what was coming, but was desperately begging the gods that he was wrong. Alvin smiled a wicked smile as he walked over to Hiccup. He braced himself for what he knew Alvin had planned, but was nowhere near prepared in the few seconds that it took for him to grab Hiccup by the front of his shirt. Alvin dragged Hiccup over to the tub and released his grip. He kicked Hiccup's legs to where he was forced onto his knees. Alvin then grabbed the back of Hiccup's head by his hair and forced his head into the water.

Hiccup struggled as best as he could, but soon felt his arms restrained as some people, who he assumed were Outcasts, grabbed onto them to resist movement. Alvin then pulled his head above surface, and, as Hiccup gasped for breath, asked him how to train dragons. When Hiccup refused to respond, Alvin dunked his head yet again.

They continued on this way for at least five more cycles, each time Hiccup maintained his silence when asked how to train dragons. Alvin seemed shocked at Hiccup's tolerance, only growing angrier each time he asked Hiccup that question. By the sixth time, and what felt like an eternity to Hiccup, Alvin gave up, realizing that Hiccup wasn't going to break this way. The bag was put back on Hiccup's head and he was led back to his cell, still gasping for breath, trying to recover from what just happened.

Hiccup braced himself as he heard the door creak open. A few steps into the room and the bag was removed from over his head. Alvin had that sinister smile on his face again, and Hiccup knew he was going to try something to get him to break.

"Welcome back, Hiccup!" Alvin said, almost cheerfully. Hiccup just scowled at him in response, showing that he hadn't given up hope that his friends were going to come rescue him. "Well, then. If you aren't going to be very talkative, let's get down to what we are here for."

Hiccup watched as Alvin signaled for the Outcasts to do something. He had a fair guess as to what it was as soon as he felt the soldier holding him back forcefully remove his vest. As he was trying not to shake, the soldier led him to a box in the middle of the room. Before he knew it, Hiccup was on his knees and his arms were tied around the box. He was completely helpless.

He jumped involuntarily as he heard the whip hit the ground behind him. He knew what was coming before the whip struck his back. He held back a scream as the whip cut through his shirt, striking his flesh. Alvin hit again, in about the same spot, this time breaking the skin. He whipped Hiccup about six more times before asking him a single question: "How do you train dragons?" When Alvin was met with silence, he struck again, harder. Say what you want about Alvin, but his weight wasn't fat, it was muscle. Blood was streaming down Hiccup's back, but somehow he had managed to refrain from screaming. He kept whipping Hiccup until finally a scream escaped from Hiccup's lips. Alvin smiled to himself as he asked Hiccup another time: "How do you train dragons?"

Hiccup sighed, almost near tears, and he nodded his head. Alvin gave a low chuckle, thinking that he had finally broken the runt. Knowing that Hiccup had been weakened, he knelt down, close to him, so he could look Hiccup in the eyes as he told him how to train dragons, even if it was just in a whisper.

"You g-go up t-to the dr-dragon and say: 'I wi-will nev-never hurt you. Let's b-be friends for-forever.'" Needless to say, Alvin was furious at the boy's sass. He cut Hiccup's arms free of their ties around the box so he could hold him up to eye-level.

"Listen here boy, you will break, and, sooner or later, I will get that secret out of you. Nobody is indestructible, not even you." Hiccup responded to this the best way he could, given the fact that he was too weak to form words: he spit in Alvin's face. Upset was an understatement for how Alvin felt at that response, even saying "furious" was an understatement. The little bit of self control that Alvin had been showing was gone. He released his grip on Hiccup's tunic and Hiccup, not having the body strength to stand, crumpled to the ground. Alvin began to kick him in the ribs, one kick after each word in the question that follows: "How do you train dragons?"

Hiccup responded by saying nothing at all. Alvin wondered how the runt could take it all. He had reached the point where he wasn't even thinking before he acted, he was that mad. He picked Hiccup up by his shirt and said: "You will regret that." When Hiccup had the nerve to smirk at him, Alvin threw him against the stone wall that was roughly three feet away. Almost as soon as Hiccup's head made contact with the wall, he collapsed onto the ground. Even in the dimmer lighting of the underground room, Alvin could see the blood on the wall. He was so angry at Hiccup, he could only bring himself to say one thing: "Make sure he's breathing and put him back in his cell."

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