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Burgess (BUR-jess)
Western Kingdom

Beams of light launched themselves from the policecraft to Hiccup and Toothless, trapping them both.

"Hiccup III!" yelled one of the officers, "Drop your weapon!"

Hiccup wasn't stupid and with a quiet spout of profanity dropped his bolas launcher.

"By the authority of the Western Guard, you are under arrest for the endangerment to life and the destruction of property!"

Meanwhile, less than 100 yards away, Jack was being cut from the bolas and hauled to his feet. Unfortunately he recognized one of the officers: Hawkins.

He seemed to recogonize Jack as well, "Hey Frosty, long time no see!"

"It's Frost officer, not frosty" Jack clarified.

Ignoring him, Hawkins was already babbling to the co-worker that had Jack's other arm, "Hey Gobber, this is the guy I was telling you about. Remember, I arrested him for petty theft, he even has a code-name!"

"It's an outlaw name" Jack argued, then wincing at his words, realising how weak his argument was.

"Yeah whatever man" Hawkins said, patting Jack on the back "It's not that weird"

If the sarcasm in his voice was any thicker, it could be cut with a knife.

Western Guard HQ
Western Kingdom

Two officers were standing in front of the screen. It was their job to review the latest group of convicts being shipped out to prison.

"Lets get this over with Jim" said one officer to the other "I have places to be"

"Relax Aladdin" officer Hawkins replied "Your wife's not going anywhere"

Officers Hawkins and Ababwa opened the file, recording their words for the archives.

"Okay then" Hawkins began, "Rapunzel. Origins say Southern Kingdom, she was surgically modified and trained to be a living weapon, says here she was adopted the demon bear, Mor'du. Jesus"

Realising that Hawkins probably wasn't going to continue, Ababwa started to read the file, "Her most recent affiliations however have been with Drago Bludvist, alongside her adopted brother Macintosh, possibly confirming that Drago is working with or for Mor'du"

Hawkins opened the next file "Hiccup III. The result of illegal genetic experimentation" He turned to his colleague in confusion "He seems to be pretty normal to me, maybe the eyes are off and he's missing a leg but he still looks like a normal teenager"

Ababwa pointed to a paragraph on the file "Read the file. Says here he was vat-grown, accelerated maturation, chronologically he's only four years old, spliced dragon and sapien DNA. Says he's missing a leg because it never grew past the knee"

Turning to the next file, Ababwa was taken by surprise "Good god, is that...?"

"They call it Toothless" Hawkins explained "Looks like a dragon, DNA shows it's a subspecies called "Night Fury", apparently it's the last of its kind. Says here it's been travelling with Hiccup III as protection and companion. Warning: seperation of the two is highly inadvisable" He closed the dragon's file "Guess he's going to jail too"

Hawkins opened the last file. It was a name he recognised. "Jackson Overland. Western Kingdom. Raised from youth by a band of mercenaries led by Nicholas North. Calls himself "Jack Frost""

"Who calls him that?"

"Himself mostly"

The Crucible
Unconfirmed Territory

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to a hellhole" said Hiccup bitterly, "You see, what most people don't realise that the Western Kingdom's prisons aren't in the west, they're out here, on the sea, neutral ground. Which is brilliant because they could kill us all and deny everything and get off scot free. Bad for us because, no kingdom equals no law. The people here are corrupt and cruel" He turned to scratch Toothless behind the ear, chuckling "But hey, that's not my problem, we won't be here long, will we boy?"

Toothless nuzzled his master's chest, given that he was muzzled and so couldn't lick him.

Hiccup continued to talk "Toothless and I have already escaped seven prisons, this one will be no different" He pointed at Rapunzel, who was walking at the front of the line "You know you're lucky Goldilocks there showed up when she did Jack, cause if she didn't, we be colecting that 40k by now, and you'd been shish-kebabed by North and his goons"

Jack only shrugged "Lots of people have tried, none have succeeded"

"Yet" Hiccup retorted.

"So" Jack spoke up again, speaking to Rapunzel, "this orb has a one ring, ark of the covenant feel to it, care to explain what it is?"

Rapunzel was as stoic as ever "I have no words for a honourless thief"

"That's rich, coming from the lackey of a homicidal maniac" Hiccup scoffed

Rapunzel turned to glare at him, but Hiccup wasn't done "Yeah, I know who you are. Anyone who's anyone knows who you are"

"I don't" Jack admitted. He was swiftly dope-slapped by Toothless's tail.

"I wasn't retrieving the orb for Drago" Rapunzel explained, "I was going to sell it off, I had an agreement with a third party"

Jack was good at sussing out a liar. It seemed like she was telling the truth.

The next few hours were a living hell for Jack. He had been forced to strip down for decontamination, this involved being soaked with a disinfectant that burned like acid, and was thrown into a room to change himself into a prisoners uniform.

With a lot of yelling, cursing and death threats, the same happened to Hiccup, who had to drag himself over to his replacement prosthetic. As he did this, Jack got a quick look at his back, and realised the kid was more messed up that he let on.

Little black spines protruded from his spinal column. Entire patches of skin turned from soft mammalian skin into ebony scales, a countless amount of scar tissue decorated his scrawny frame.

Hiccup snapped his head to look at Jack. Jack, realising he had just been watching Hiccup get dressed hurriedly averted his gaze.

The group were handed sleeping mats and shoved into the courtyard. Every eye in said courtyard turned to look at them, or at least one person. Then the yelling started.

"RAPUNZEL!"
"YOU'RE DEAD!"
"MURDERER!"
"YOU'RE GONNA DIE HERE!"
Were just some of the more family-friendly death threats that were thrown at her. Jack was stunned. Never before in his life had he ever seen so much hatred directed at one person.

"Like I said" Hiccup said, "She has a rep. A lot of people have lost friends and families to Drago and his goons. I'm betting a revenge-by-proxy scenario. She'll last about a day"

"Won't the guards protect her?" Jack asked

Hiccup looked back at him like he was stupid "They're here to keep us in. They don't give a damn about what we do to each other"

"Don't worry" Rapunzel spoke up, surprising the two guys, "Whatever nightmares the future may hold, are dreams compared to what's behind me"

"Jesus" Jack muttered to himself before turning and walking into a solid wall of minotaur muscle.

"Check out the new meat!" the minotaur bellowed, running his hand over Jack's face in a manner than made alarm bells ring inside Jack's brain "I'm gonna slather you up with the soap first, then I'm gonna go to town..."

The minotaur's monologue was abruptly cut off however, when Toothless's jaws, teeth bared, clamped down on the minotaur's arm and throwing him onto his back. Jack couldn't bear to watch, all he could hear was crunching bone and the minotaur's screams.

"Okay! Listen up!" Hiccup called out over the sounds of sceaming. "This one here (he pointed at Jack) is my bitch! You want him, you go through me! Or, to put it more accurately, he (he pointed at Toothless) goes through you!"

Toothless released his prey, who immediately fell to the floor, holding his mauled arm close to his chest, and curled up into the foetal position. Hiccup just nonchalantly stepped over him before walking off with his dragon.

"I'm wth them!" Jack clarified before walking around the minotaur, and running after his "bodyguards"

Rapunzel was escorted into a solitary confinement cell "for her own protection" while everyone was still yelling bloody murder at her. However there was one inmate that never raised their voice, that never moved, they just kept their gaze on Rapunzel.

A cold, blue-eyed gaze.