Chapter 9
Hiccup woke up in his cell. The boy slowly opened his eyes, before quickly standing up, and looking where he ended up.
He was in a dark dungeon, where only few torches showed what was going on. "Alvin. He tricked us!" thought Hiccup as he remembered the last day.
"Hello Hiccup, I see you are finally awake," spoke the large Viking, as he approached Hiccup's cell.
"What do you want Alvin? I wont help you. You should know that the rest of my friends will soon rescue me," spoke Hiccup
"I am sure they will. In fact, I already know that your cousins are here on the island. But don't worry; I wont hurt them when I capture those two girls. Much. I will just make them suffer like he does," spoke Alvin as he pointed out at another cell, where Toothless was chained to a wall. The Night Fury could not move. Toothless looked at his rider for a few seconds, before looking on the floor.
"Don't hurt Toothless, or my friends," spoke Hiccup
"Of course I wont. Just teach me how to train the dragons, and I will let you all go," spoke Alvin, before his right hand man pushed another Viking into the room.
"Say hello to your new cellmate," spoke Alvin, as he grabbed Mildew and threw him in the cell adjacent to the one Hiccup was located.
"Thank you for your help, old man. I will repay your debt to me by providing you with last meal before your execution. Tonight you shall have sheep meet," spoke Alvin as he left the room, grabbing Fungus, Mildew's sheep.
"No, Fungus, don't take him away!" cried Mildew, as he looked distraught.
Hours passed. Hiccup looked at Toothless, who refused all water that the guards brought to him. The boy was worried; he did not want his dragon to starve.
"We need to make a plan to escape. I need your help, Mildew. Help us get out from here," spoke Hiccup to Mildew.
The old man looked at Hiccup. "What do you have in mind?" asked Mildew
As the two Vikings discussed their escape plan, the two girls soon arrived to the Outcast Arena. "What do we do now? We don't know where Hiccup is held!" spoke Merida, as a few Outcast warriors suddenly surrounded the two girls.
Merida immediately retrieved her bow and arrows, and prepared to fire at the enemies. Heather prepared her twin daggers, and lowered her body closer to the ground, ready to jump.
"Get them!" cried one of the Outcasts, as they charged at the two friends.
Meanwhile, while Hiccup's cousins were fighting the outcasts, Hiccup and Mildew finally managed to escape their cell. They exited the dungeon, only to find themselves at a field filled with wild dragons.
"No, wild dragons! We are doomed!" cried Mildew in horror
"Don't worry Mildew, we just need to pass through them. They wont attack us unless threatened," spoke Hiccup as the two started slowly walking through the field. The dragons looked at them with suspicion, but did not move.
As the two people almost exited the field, a wild Nadder suddenly opened its wings, and looked at them.
"Extend your arm, Mildew, and show the dragon that you mean it no harm," spoke Hiccup as he took Mildew's hand.
The dragon looked at the old Viking and soon put its head next to Mildew's hand. "What are you doing?" spoke Mildew, as Hiccup first pushed him on the dragon, then climbed on top of it himself.
As the wild dragon rose in the sky, Merida and Heather stood on the rocks, while surrounded by the laying bodies of their opponents. "We should do this again," spoke Merida excitedly, as Heather lightly glared at her.
The two girls heard a roar, and as they turned, they saw the Night Fury.
"Toothless!" exclaimed the two girls, as they ran towards the dragon.
As the three reunited, they saw that a large bolder crashed into the dragon that Hiccup and Mildew rode. The dragon fell from the sky, and landed close to the girls, and Toothless.
"Get them all," spoke Alvin, as his men began to surround the group. The three cousins quickly reunited.
"Toothless," spoke Hiccup as he hugged his dragon's head, before looking first at his cousins, and then at the approaching enemy.
"What is he doing here?" inquired Merida
"Long story, but we need to escape the island," spoke Hiccup, as a group of twenty Outcasts began to surround the villagers of Berk.
"Surrender while you can, and you wont suffer for long," spoke Alvin
"Father, please, let us go," tried to reason with him Heather. The Outcast Chief ignored her.
Suddenly an explosion occurred next to the group. A green Zippleback released more gas before creating another explosion.
"Look at us, we are the agents of chaos," shouted the twins, as they kept gassing and then exploding the landscape of the island.
While the Monstrous Nightmare provided firepower, and Gronckle artillery, Hiccup saw that just as one Outcast warrior grabbed him, Astrid jumped from her Nadder dragon, and with her right leg kicked the Outcast.
"Hi Astrid, Hi Astrid, " began Hiccup, trying to apologize to his friend for not informing her about his plan.
"Don't scare me like that!" cried Astrid as she then jumped. Her left fist collided with another Outcast. The man cried of pain.
Heather smirked. She ducked, and avoided an attack before jumping in the air, and with lightning speed disarming an enemy warrior. She defeated a few enemies, before one of the Outcasts managed to hit her in the stomach. The raven-haired girl gasped for air, as she fell on the rock.
Astrid kept punching her opponents. While she was more resilient to the attacks, and did not need a lot of time to recover from punches, even she soon got overwhelmed.
Merida kept shooting at her enemies, disarming them. Once, she saw that one of the Outcasts prepared his crossbow to shoot them.
"Oh no, you wont," spoke Merida, as she released an arrow, which flew and soon pierced through the man's arm, causing him to drop his weapon. Just as the girl was ready to celebrate her victory, another Outcast warrior used a club to hit her. Merida fell.
"Surrender, your friends are defeated. Tell the rest of your friends to leave, or else," spoke Alvin as Hiccup climbed on Toothless and rose in the air.
"You wont hurt my family," spoke Hiccup as Toothless began blasting at Outcasts, who quickly retreated.
Astrid was the first to recover.
"Take them, while I take Mildew. We need to retreat," spoke Hiccup as he helped the old man climb on Toothless. Astrid nodded, and helped Merida and Heather to stand up before the wild Nadder took off and flew to meet with other dragon riders.
Toothless rose in the air; Hiccup and Mildew sat on his back.
"You wont get away," spoke Alvin, as he launched another catapult. Toothless managed to dodge the bolder, but the dragon shook, and Mildew lost control. The man quickly slid down the dragon's tail.
"Mildew!" cried Hiccup
"Tell Stoic I am so sorry," spoke Mildew
"No, don't let go," protested Hiccup, as Mildew could not hold the dragon's tail any longer and fell to the ground. Alvin soon grabbed the old man.
Hiccup tried to rescue Mildew, but his rescue attempt was met with many arrows. While Toothless dodged them, both of them knew that they could not rescue Mildew.
