Another chapter?! What the... WHAT?! Lol. Enough chitchat! Here it is! Chapter 9! (Get the tissues :P)

Chapter 9: Breathe

Stoick was running his hands through his flaming red hair as they got closer and closer to their destination. Valka was going over the speed limit by at least ten MPH, but she didn't care. She needed to get to her son, nobody was on the road anyway. Tommy was in the back, his hands on his head, elbows resting on his knees as he tried not to think about the possibility of his brother being dead.

"Come on." Val muttered angrily as she waited to see the sign that said 'Garner' on it. She knew it was coming she just wish it would come faster.

They kept driving, and soon came across a tractor, with a wagon attached, stopped on the side of the road. In the back were tons of people, old and young. They pulled up next to it, rolling down the passenger window.

"Is everybody alright?" Stoick asked.

The young man driving nodded. "Yeah, I'm just trying to find them some shelter." he said, gesturing to the people in the back.

"Take them to the school." Stoick instructed. "We have a storm shelter."

The man nodded, about to drive forward, but turned his head to look back at Stoick. "Be careful out there. All the warning sirens are down. If a tornado is headed your way you're not gonna know it!" he warned, and drove off.

The three continues for a few minutes, which felt like hours for the stressed family, until they came across Garner.

Stoick almost jumped out of his seat. "Turn left! Here!" he said hurriedly.

Valka did as she was told, no questions asked. They pulled up to the factory and jumped out of the van, looking around. The place was flattened. Where walls once stood, a new floor of smashed brick was placed. There was debris everywhere.

Stoick heart beat quickened. "Hiccup?!" he called, desperately, searching the debris.

Choruses of 'Hiccup?!' and 'Astrid?!' rang through the area, but no reply was heard. Then Tommy found something.

"Hey!" he yelled, calling everyone's attention. He held up a small camera bag and a mangled tripod. "It's Hiccup's!"

Stoick panicked. Hiccups stuff was here, but where was he? Valka pulled him from his thoughts.

"Over here!" she called. Stoick and Tommy were there in moments. She pointed up at two pipes, busted open and water spilling from them. "He said there was water coming in, right?"

Stoick froze. he heard a small noise, not like metal or water. But like a person. "Everybody quiet." he said, listening. "Hiccup?" he asked quietly.

Then they heard it. Faint and bubbled, like someone was talking underwater, was a voice. It took them a moment to decipher what it was saying.

"D-ad-d!" the voice cried. They knew instantly who it was.

"Hiccup!" they all seemed to cry out at once. Stoick and Tommy raced to where they heard the noise, where as Valka went to the other side, where she saw some bubbles and a flicker of blonde. Astrid.

Stoick removed a metal sheet to reveal a medium sized gap. Too small for a person to get through, but large enough to fit their head. Hiccup was in there. Head mostly submerged in water, only his eyes, nose, mouth and a bit of his ears peaked out. He tried to speak, but kept gasping and coughing for air.

"I've got you!" Stoick called, gripping his son's hand tightly. "I've got you, son!"

"I found Astrid!" Valka called from the other side, waving her hand in the air.

Tommy looked around frantically. Neither Hiccup or Astrid could escape because of the debris. Then, he noticed it. A large beam lay across the whole portion of the hole. If they could move it, it would push the other debris out of the way and they could get out.

"We've gotta move this beam!" Tommy said, trying to push the large, heavy beam out of the way. But it wouldn't move. Stoick walked over to help, but the wet ground didn't help them with traction, and the beam was too heavy.

Tommy looked around, spotting the van. An idea struck him like a lightning bolt. He ran toit quickly.

Stoick looked at his younger son in confusion. "What are you doing!?" he asked.

Tommy opened the driver's door and hopped inside. "Get out of the way!" he called, shutting the door and starting the van.

Stoick's eyes widened. He knew what Tommy was trying to do. "Tell her to get down!" Stoick yelled to Valka, who nodded and did so. Stoick kneeled down next to his son. "Get under! We're gonna move this beam!"

"O-ay!" Hiccup got out, dunking under the water.

Seconds after he did so, Tommy drove the van straight into the bam, swinging it to the side. What they didn't know, is that when they did that, another, smaller beam, swung down. It had straps attached to it on each side, that were attached to another beam on the floor of the hole. When it swung down, the straps pulled it tight and right down to the bottom. What was in between those two beams, was Hiccup's left leg.

He cried out in pain from under the water, wasting all his air. Some water went down his throat, and when he went to cough, he breathed more water in and choked on it. He lay there, close to the bottom, trapped. He couldn't breathe. And soon he couldn't feel anything around him. And eventually, he couldn't see. His world had gone black.

Valka pulled Astrid out the second the girl resurfaced. She gave the girl her rain coat and pulled her close, trying to warm her. Stoick, was not doing the same. Hiccup had not resurfaced.

"Hiccup?!" Stoick called desperately. Nothing. Fearing the worst, he ripped his jacket off and dove into the water.

Stoick looked around, finally spotting his son. Hiccup was unconscious, floating limply under the water. Stoick wondered why his body did not float, until he saw the beam crushing his son's leg. He tried desperately to remove it. Until he ran out of air himself. Before he resurfaced, he took note of the straps holding the beam down.

When he resurfaced, he wasted no time reaching into his jacket and pulling out the pocket knife Tommy had earlier, and diving back down with a deep gulp of air. Quickly, he cut the straps and shoved the beam to the side. Hiccups body floated lifelessly upwards. his hair flowing in the water, his mouth slightly agape and eyes closed shut gently. Stoick closed the knife and grabbed his son under the arms, taking him to the surface.

Tommy was crouched on all fours, looking down at the water for his father and brother. Moments later, Stoick resurfaced, Hiccup in his arms. Tommy helped his father pull his unconscious brother out of the water and helped his father out as well.

Stoick threw the knife to the side, caring less about it, and got down on his knees next to his son. Pulling Hiccup into his arms, he rested his ear against the boys chest. Nothing. He heard nothing. "He's not breathing!" he yelled, panicked.

Valka tensed, feeling tears starting to brim her eyes. She looked at Astrid, who was staring at Hiccups lifeless body. Tears ran down the young Hofferson's face, and Valka pulled her into a hug to comfort her, and herself.

Stoick placed his hands over his son's chest, fingers intertwined and began CPR. "Come on! Come on, son!" he kept muttering. After thirty compressions, his son still wasn't breathing. He did a quick mouth-to-mouth before compressing again.

"Oh my god…" Tommy trailed off, almost in tears. His voice wavered, proof of how hard he was trying not to cry.

Stoick had a few tears himself. He couldn't lose him. He just… couldn't. Stoick kept pressing. he would not give up. "No…" he breathed out, giving Hiccup another breath before compressing again. "Hiccup! Come on! Breathe gods damn it! Breathe!"

Astrid was crying into Valka's shoulder, but the woman didn't care, for she was almost doing the same. Tommy was pacing, taking shaky breaths. A few tears made it's way down his face. Stoick had the same.

He kept pressing and breathing, trying to revive his son, but nothing was working. "Damn it!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. "BREATHE!" Tears ran down his face, he was almost crying. But he wouldn't give up, yet.

An just like that, Hiccup took a deep breath in, and began to cough up the water violently. Stoick tilted Hiccup onto his side so he could cough up the water. He had a huge smile on his face and a few tears running down his cheeks.

"Cough it up." he said reassuringly. "Come on. Come on, son. Cough it up." He patted Hiccups back to help get the water out of his lungs.

When the coughing stopped, Hiccup was laid down on Stoick's lap. Stoick held his son close, fearing that if he let go, Hiccup would stop breathing again. Soon enough, Hiccup opened his eyes, squinting at the light.

"D-ad?" he choked out. His head hurt. And his chest and his leg. But he didn't care about that right now. He coughed a little more water up, and began breathing regularly again. "-strid?" he asked. He didn't know if Astrid made it out or not, but it was worrying him.

Stoick nodded. "We got her. You're okay, you're okay…" he whispered into Hiccup's ear.

Astrid was still sobbing, but it was mostly from joy. She couldn't stop herself. Valka was almost crying in pure joy herself. Her son had made it. He was alive.

"We got him now…" Valka kept saying. "We got him."

Tommy was by his brothers side in moments, holding him along with his father. "I'm so happy you're okay…" he trailed off.

Hiccup looked at his brother and gave him a weak smile. "Takes more than a… little water to kill… me…" he said lightly, still catching his breath.

Tommy chuckled. His father used the hand that wasn't holding Hiccup and wrapped it around his shoulders, pulling him close.

"I love you, son." Stoick whispered to Hiccup. "I love you both. So much."

Valka left Astrid, after the blonde had finally calmed down, and made her way to Hiccup's side. She kneeled down next to him, placing her hand on his cheek. He was freezing but she didn't care. "Hey," was all she could get out. She was too happy to see her son after many months, and to see his chest rising and falling calmly.

Hiccup looked over at her and smiled. "Hey Mom…" he breathed. "Long time no see…"

Valka chuckled lightly. "Are you alright?" she asked, just to make sure.

Hiccup nodded, then shrugged lightly. "Yeah… most of me… is..."

That got the family curious. Noticing their expressions, Hiccup pointed down at his left leg. No one had really looked at it until now. All they could see was the sweater. Valka moved over towards his leg and untied the sweater. She gasped at what she saw.

The skin was ripped up and some fresh blood still oozed from the wound that spread down his shin. About mid-shin, there was a sharp white thing sticking right out through the skin. Valka soon realized it was the bone.

"Oh gods…" she trailed off. Stoick and Tommy looked down at the leg and immediately looked away. It was truly horrific. Valka quickly retired the sweater around the leg and put her head in her hands.

Hiccup winced slightly as his mother tightened the sweater around his wounds. "Yeah…" he got out, gritting his teeth slightly. "It kinda did… that…"

Astrid finally relaxed enough to walk over and kneel down next to Hiccup. She placed her hand on his shoulder, before moving it to his cheek. "You scared me." she said, rubbing her thumb against his face.

Hiccup chuckled. "I really… have to stop that…" Astrid gave him a small laugh before he continued. "You alright?" he asked, concerned.

Astrid looked at him. "You should be asking yourself that." Hiccup nodded slightly. "But yeah. I'm fine." she said with a smile, giving him a kiss on the forehead.

"There they are!" Eric called, pointing at the small group of people in front of the destroyed factory. The familiar blue van is what caught his eye.

Alvin nodded and turned towards them, parking the Titus next to the van. He hopped out quickly walking over to the group of people huddled on the ground next to a large hole filled, and now overflowing with water.

"Everybody alright?" he asked. There was a small chorus of 'yes' and 'yeah' that followed. Alvin nodded. "Good."

Stoick helped Hiccup into a seated position, holding one of his son's arms, Alvin walked over to the other and helped the boy to his fee- foot. Hiccup grunted in pain as his leg shifted, but once he was up the pain decreased. Alvin gave Hiccup a light pat on the shoulder and moved out of the way so Valka could wrap her arm around her son to support him.

"Alvin!" Eric called. He was in the van, looking at the monitors. "You might want to see this!"

Alvin walked into the van to see what was so important. "What is it?" he asked.

Eric pointed at one of the monitors. It showed two large cells forming close to one another before being combined into one large cell. On another monitor, the news broadcast was playing, showing the two large twisters.

"We now have two very large tornadoes moving towards the town of Silverton. All residents of Shaw County should seek shelter immediately." The reporter said. "They are converging, which could generate wind speeds of up to a… There! There they go! They just converged. We are looking at wind speeds inside the funnel of over 300 miles per hour. This is definitely an EF5!" Like the reporter said, the two large tornadoes converged together, creating one gargantuan funnel.

Alvin gaped at the screen. "That's the biggest tornado I've ever seen…" he trailed off before jumping out of the van. "Everybody!" he called, getting everyone's attention. "Into the Titus! We have to get out of here!"

Valka passed Alvin a questioning look. "What's going on?" she asked.

"Gigantic EF5 headed our way. It will flatten this whole town! We have to get out of here!" he told her. Valka's eyes widened, taking her son from her husband and helped him into the Titus.

Stoick stayed, looking at Alvin. "We have to go to the school, to warn them! The whole town's in there!" he said.

Alvin nodded, patting his old friend's shoulder. "Then let's pay Gobber a visit." he joked.

Stoick smiled and they made their way to the Titus. Alvin was about to close his door when he saw Eric leaving the van. "Come on, Eric!" he called.

Eric continued to walk until a loud crack of thunder rang through the air, followed by a fork or two. Eric jumped and ran the rest of the way to the Titus, hopping in the back with Hiccup, Astrid and Stoick.

Alvin started the Titus and they were off to the school. And so was the F5.

Haza! Another Tornado is a coming! How did you like that chapter? It was longer! 2500+ words! Your response last chapter was insane! 8 reviews! I felt bad about the cliffhanger so…new chapter! Hope you like! Don't forget to Review! See ya!

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