Oh look it's me again. So this note may be important so if you guys actually read these then I guess you don't miss out on much XD.
Okay, the reason I have gathered you all here to this note today is that there are some things that I want to inform you. Mkay here we go.
I may be discontinuing Traps and Arrows, I don't have that feeling to write it and the plot is all over so if you guys want it or to re write it way better than what I have, I will gladly give it to the "new" owner, if no one wants it then I might as well just get rid of it. I don't have that spark with it anymore so yeah... Still deciding.
I have also decided to stay writing on Fanfiction! I may only get a review of each chapter and that's it, but I just might as well not worry about it so yeah, I'm staying. *pops a small confetti popper and someone claps* Yep.
And last! Episode 2 isn't up yet and since the ending for DOTW P2 was bad I might as well spoil it because you guys probably know how it would end anyway. They don't run out of time! Yay! Now it's time for Viggo's Revenge!
"We have to keep searching, somehow SkullCrusher lost her scent!" Stoick announced, not wasting another minute and leading the riders into a different direction. It had been a few hours and Astrid hadn't returned, which shocked Stoick. As much as he thought on the what if's where Astrid could be, he realized one thing in that fact, Astrid never took hours on the tasks he thought of, especially when she said she go on patrol and be right back because leaving Hiccup's side for unnecessary tasks was not an option, leading Stoick to check the island with the riders, leaving Gothi and Gobber to watch over his son.
"Ah, chief!" Fishlegs called, his eyes widen at his thoughts. "If Astrid went missing, that means someone is one on this island. Who checked on Viggo last? Those stables aren't exactly meant to hold someone."
"OH! It was our turn, I knew we were supposed to do something a week ago." Tuffnut said, shaking his head in disapproval to himself.
"A WEEK AGO!?" Stoick yelled in realization. "You mean Viggo could have been running free for a week! A man who hurt my son could have Astrid."
No one dared to nod, knowing his reaction. Stoick sighed before physically facepalming and heading back to the Edge where he'd check the stable and silently praying to Thor that the crazed man had failed at an attempt to escape. There was a great chance that Stoick would arrive at an empty cage, not caring about what state it was in but only focusing on what it wasn't holding.
Once SkullCrusher had landed on the large terrace of the stables, he didn't waste a breath to jump from the saddle and run into the stables. It wasn't long until his feet came to a stop in front of a certain cell and looked inside until his eyes found a figure slumped in the corner, their teeth showing brightly from the dark chamber.
"Ah, I thought you'd forget about me." Viggo's calm voice echoed out to Stoick before the Grimborn stepped into the light, his face inches from the wooden bars.
"What are you getting at!? What's your little plan? Why Haven't I executed you sooner? Also, Where's Astrid?"
"Many questions and I'll be delighted to answer them and I hope you'd take any answer." Stoick didn't respond, instead, he kept his hard glare, his look could kill Viggo in seconds. Viggo took it as a continue and he did, calmer than ever and that actually started to worry Stoick, no wonder why Hiccup had so many problems with this unbearable man. He was hard to read and by everything he's heard about the man in front of him, this man was intelligent and that gave him a signal to kill this man quickly before more problems stirred. "I have no intention to get at anything, in particular, I can't do much behind these bars. I won't lie either, I have no plan so no need to worry about me, what you should be focusing on is your poor son."
"You did that to my boy! I would be worrying about yourself. Now answer my question. Where's Astrid?" Stoick's hands gripped the bars of the cell, his anger showing clearly in his eyes. Oh, the pleasure of getting this man off the face off the face of the Earth was becoming too appealing for Stoick.
"Well, I'm glad you care. Anyways, I was getting there but your patience seems to be very low. I have no idea where the little blonde one is, again I am incapable of doing anything against you riders as I can't get that far outside now can I?"
"If I found out that this was all lies, I will have your head for a trophy," Stoick grumbled and left the building, if he didn't get out there quick enough, Viggo wouldn't last any longer. Yeah, killing Viggo was one of the best options but answers were still needed and Viggo deserved a slow painful, agonizing death. Stoick was also shocked by the fact that Viggo had somehow got inside his head and managed to get him raged faster than he never knew he could reach.
However, Stoick had calmed down when the sight of riders landed on the perch, ready to give him the news. No matter what it was, Stoick had to keep himself calm, their chief shouldn't be lashing out like a wild dragon affected by eels.
"Anything?" Stoick asked gently as Fishlegs, Snotlout, and the twins had climbed from their saddles and towards Stoick.
"No sign of Viggo nor Astrid. We know one thing, they couldn't get off this island."
"Don't worry about Viggo, he never escaped," Stoick stated as he sighed, his fingers traveling down his beard.
"Oh, that's fantastic! Well, then why did we waste time searching for a man who was in his cage the whole time!?" Snotlout suddenly yelled, seemingly mad at how most of his day was spent doing nothing important but the rest of the riders disagreed otherwise.
"Duh, because Astrid is missing. Man, he is so … what's the word." Ruffnut questioned.
"I believe it is dumb, I hear that word all the time but I never got it," Tuffnut adds, his fingers stroking his invisible beard almost copying Stoick's thinking actions.
"Maybe because you guys are the definition of dumb!" Snotlout grumbled, the annoyance rate going up quickly.
"Wait for so dumb means Ruffnut and Tuffnut?" Wondered Ruffnut. Fishlegs knew that the twins were know lost in a confused state and the best thing was to ignore it and just let them figure it out like the time they asked what comes after three and it took the twins 2 days to figure it out that it was 4, and that was a week ago.
So really the only thing that Fishlegs responded with, was a facepalm and the slap to the forehead was heard very clearly.
Stoick sighs, trying to ignore the twins and Snotlout. "Whatever. If Viggo's here then I have no idea where Astrid could be but we better find her soon otherwise we could lose her and I don't want to be the one to break the news to Hiccup that he lost his best friend."
"Yeah, me neither, they seemed closer ever since Astrid got blinded, I have no idea what's going on but there is something between them" Fishlegs adds, trying to keep the important conversation going and the more thinking done, the more they get closer to finding Astrid.
"We will worry about that later. Twins and Fishlegs go and search for-"
"I could help to find Miss. Astrid." Viggo called out from the stables, obviously eavesdropping since Stoick had left the building. Which reminded Stoick, do the thinking away from earshot of their enemy.
The riders followed Stoick inside the Dragon Stables and glared at Viggo, they really didn't need his input after all why take advice from an enemy who was probably plotting to kill everyone on the island and burn the island until it was nothing but ash resting on the seafloor.
"Why would trust you?" Fishlegs pointed out, his voice covered in anger.
"Because I know more. There is something between the two, I had a little chat before-"
"Before you stabbed him in the back and dropped him in the ocean!" Stoick argued.
"The past is the past, live in the present. As I was saying, those two are more than acquaintances. The two have managed to keep a secret from all of you as they became official, and bringing it up to Hiccup, he never seemed fond that I had seen right through their little act."
"So they are dating?" Fishlegs muttered.
"I'm pretty sure there's a gambling problem." Snotlout added.
"I believe our idea is better," Ruffnut said. "Hiccup dying is truer because, well, he's dying."
Tuffnut gasps suddenly. "Astrid can tell the future!"
"If Astrid could tell the future, she'd probably stop everything from happening," Fishlegs said with an eye roll.
"She brainwashed Fishlegs so he wouldn't spill her secret. LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!" Tuffnut and Ruffnut escape from the stables, leaving a confused Viggo.
"You guys are an odd bunch," Viggo added.
"The point is, you guys are actually trusting Viggo's words?" Snotlout questioned.
"It's better than letting him out of his hold and letting him wander the Edge!" Fishlegs argued as Stoick rolled his eyes, clearly done with everything today.
"It doesn't matter if my son is dating her or not right now, I want answers. You said you knew where Astrid could be. Now, explain." Stoick wanted to jump with joy that his son finally made a move but it wasn't the time, right now he had to get the answers.
"After Ryker and I had made a split with each other, he is still very well out there. Many people can cover up on where they've been. Ryker would hide on the far side and have Astrid. You can either follow what I say or search yourself and risk a loss. Your choice." Viggo responded.
Stoick gives Fishlegs and Snotlout a worried glance. Each rider sharing the same expression.
Out on the far side of the island, the cave occupied by the intruder was filled with light as a campfire crackled as ash fell onto the rocky surface.
A bound Astrid was slumped in the corner, the rope wrapped around from her shoulders to her toes as her mouth was stuffed with a wad of cloth and wrapped with a large thin cloth filled with dust and grime.
It wasn't until moments after that Astrid had opened her blue eyes. Her vision dazed, making her blink rapidly until it cleared to give her an image of her Deadly Nadder slumped more farther back in the cave and bound as much as Astrid was.
A few minutes of processing on what had happened to her, how she was not rescued, and Hiccup father from her than she had wished, Astrid had begun to struggle, hoping to free herself from the ropes and escape but there was no use. It also pained her that she could use the new tactics from the training lesson that Hiccup had set up a few weeks ago on how to escape ropes. Hiccup had said that they should make their body tense because when the rope was tied, it was tied with you with a loose body, so if you tensed your body and became stiff, you could loosen the ropes and run free, but she had no skin showing as the rope almost suffocated her.
It was a few minutes of pointless struggling, her body became still. Her sudden movements were also seized because of a pair of feet and entered her view, causing her to look up.
"Ah, look who's awake!" Ryker laughed. Astrid's eyes grew at the sight before building up her courage and glaring daggers at the man. "Astrid Hofferson, Hiccup's prize. You're easier to catch then you give and I thank you for that because if we never caught you then we'd never get the chance to get rid of a pest. So ready to feel how it feels to be a cause of your precious little boyfriend's death?"
Short chapter and *grins evilly* Ready 1..2..3..
CLIFFHANGER!
So uh yeah, short but what do you think.
ANYWAYS…. Since I have nothing else to say might as well do my wonderful exit!
WONDERLAND OUT!
*Covers self in a blanket and disappears but really is still standing there with a blanket over my head* IT WORKED!