Hey another chapter, huzzah! Sorry for the wait but I've been focusing more on some of my other stories and I've had a TON of make up homework from the month I was in the hospital, yeah...you hear the sarcasm? Don't know how you couldn't. Well any enjoy and R&R.

Shout Outs!

Brenne

Yes, so antagonizingly close! Fates must hate him. Wait...if I'm writing this story that makes me the fates. Well I guess I was one of the witches in McBeth but I don't hate Hiccup XP

Zoha Ven

No need for tears, I will continue to write this until it is finished.

JEM48893

DO NOT FALL OFF YOUR SEAT! If you do make sure that you hold on tight until someone can help you up, unless of coarse you fall over backwards, in that case make sure you get a video of it XP Thanks, I really enjoy writing the quips because I am also very sarcastic it it's just fun to write.


Hiccup woke up to a dark room and on a soft bed. As he looked around to find where Toothless was he shoved back down onto his bed. He looked down to see what had shoved him when the memories of the other day came flooding into his mind, "Oh Thor I'm dead." He began struggling against the ropes keeping him in place when he heard heavy footsteps coming up the stairs, "Please be my dad. Please be my dad. Please be my dad…" He whispered to himself.

Hiccup watched the door as it opened and, it was Alvin, Hiccup's face visibly fell, "Well 'mornin' 'iccup. Ya ready to train me some dragons?"

"Uh…all dragons on Berk are trained." Hiccup said his eyes wandering to Alvin's bandaged hand.

"That they may be, but they ain't doing anythin' I want them to."

Hiccup rolled his eyes, "I wonder why?"

"Enough of yer sarcasm 'iccup, I have no patience for it." Alvin cut the ropes holding Hiccup to the bed.

"You have patience? When?"

Alvin jerked him out of the bed and sent him sprawling across the room, "I said knock it off. Now get up."

Hiccup stood up and rubbed his wrist where Alvin grabbed him. He realized that Alvin had yet to use his left hand, "Something wrong with your hand?"

Alvin growled rubbing his head, "Shut it 'iccup, you know right well what's wrong with me hand. It was a miracle I was able to use it last night at all, you cut through muscle and tendons, then broke a bone. Now because of that I can't use it for at least three months!"

Hiccup resisted the urge to chuckle as Alvin pushed him down the stairs, "I can't say I'm sorry, quite the opposite in fact. You go to Gothi?"

"Yeah, how do you know?" Alvin stopped Hiccup before they reached the door and grabbed a manacle and chain.

"You were rubbing your head, nearly everyone who goes to see Gothi gets smacked in the head."

"She's lucky that she's the best healer I know or else…" Alvin secured the manacle around Hiccup's wrist then pulled him out the door. They walked through the village, it was eerie, no Berkians were out only Outcasts. A few minutes later they reached the arena.

Savage came up, "Sir, the dragon is ready."

"Good," Alvin shoved Hiccup into the arena and closed the door. He walked around the arena until he had the best view of Hiccup.

"Sooo, you going to make me train a Night Fury? I've heard that you can't train them." Hiccup yelled up to Alvin.

"Very funny boy, release the dragon!" The men opened the dragon cage and nothing came out.

"Hu?" At first Hiccup thought it was another Changewing until he heard a soft hissing that most defiantly was not a Changewing, "A Whispering Death?! You brought a Whispering Death onto Berk!?"

"Like I said, it's not doing what I want it to."

Hiccup looked around, feeling the ground. He felt the ground to vibrate right beneath him and jumped away from the spot, a second later the Whispering Death came up. It roared at Hiccup and squinted then settled down onto the ground, not burrowing or anything. Hiccup was completely perplex, that wasn't normal behavior…for any wild dragon. He began to carefully walk towards it and it didn't move. He was only a foot away before he saw something, something that identified the dragon immediately, a bite mark. "Hey there, you remember me? Well obviously you do 'cause you didn't attack me." The dragon just looked at Hiccup.

"What?!" Alvin shouted, the Whispering Death growled and Hiccup place a hand on his snout to calm him down, "Throw the dragon root in!" Alvin commanded.

Hiccup went wide eyed, not good, as the dragon root was thrown in. It landed besides Hiccup and the Whispering Death, he prepared for the end when nothing happened. He looked at the dragon for a moment then realized something, "You're a Boulder class."

"I don't understand, that usually works. What went wrong?!" Alvin shouted.

"Well, performance issues not uncommon; one out of five?" Hiccup asked.

"Lock up the dragon!" Alvin began storming down to Hiccup.

Hiccup looked at the dragon sitting next to him, "You gotta go." It looked at him perplexed, "Burrow underground and get out of here!" Hiccup said exasperated.

The dragon nodded then began its tunneling, within a few seconds it was gone. Hiccup was grabbed on his upper arm, "You little…"

"Little what? I didn't have trouble training the dragon, it clearly listened to me!" Hiccup shouted at Alvin trying to jerk his arm free.

"Ya listen here and ya listen good. Ya are goin' to train dragons that listen to me and do what I want or else I will start executin' the villagers, startin' with your father and friends." Alvin hissed. Hiccup glared at him, he couldn't let him kill the villagers-his villagers-but he also couldn't train dragons for Alvin. He had to act, and he had to do it soon. Alvin shoved him forward, "Get movin'."

They entered Hiccups room once again, "I thought you were going to make me train dragons?"

Alvin shoved him on his bed, "We need to get a new dragon, shouldn't be hard though." He walked over to Hiccup's window and opened it, there were several bars blocking the entrance, "Incase ya think of tryin' to escape again, forget it. Not even a dragon could get through those. There's some food on yer desk, ya should eat it 'cause it's all ya get for the day."

With that Alvin left the room and locked the door once again. Hiccup stood there for a second the investigated the bars, Alvin was right, he couldn't get out that way. Hiccup smiled, if he couldn't go through the window he'd have to go around it. He sat down at his desk and picked at the fish and bread, at least it was edible. While he ate he began thinking of a plan of escape, well more of a plan to get the Outcasts off of Berk.

The sun had fallen and Hiccup could hear Alvin snoring below him. He got out of his bed and tiptoed over to his desk, then moved the chair out of the way. Once done he got on his hands and knees and crawled under the desk, after a moment he found the hidden latch. He unlocked it and slid out into the outside world. He was grateful he had installed it years ago, before he met Toothless. When he was about seven his father found out he had been leaving though his window and bolted it shut, Hiccup then installed a door in his wall. No one to this day knew of its existence, except him.

He ran through the town, keeping to the shadows and being extra careful to not make a sound. He came to the forges' back window and slipped in, he stood there for a second listening. Everything was quiet and no one was awake, and the few that where were too far away to hear. He pulled out the set of plans he had hidden in his leather vest and laid them out on the table then proceeded to find the right metals, primarily Gronkle Iron. He found the metal and heated up the forge. As the metal was heating he went into his back room to find some other supplies. Stored in the cupboard was a bottle of Monstrous Nightmare gel and some Zippleback gas, gathering them in his arms he was about to leave the workshop. He set the items on the table then moved a basket out of the way and grabbed a small sack sitting behind it, he picked it up then left with the other items.

When he came back out the metal was molten, he poured it out onto a mold then began hammering. Once he had the general shape he placed it back into the forge to heat up, as it was reheating he grabbed some other scrap metal and tossed it into the forge also. He retrieved the metal then took a kind of chisel and began cutting pieces out. He repeated the process of heating, hammering, and chiseling for another hour until it was finished. He spent the next hour putting the intricate pieces together and making sure it would hold up in the heat of battle.

Now the tricky part, getting the Zippleback gas into the pods he'd made, it took some time to get the technique down but he managed. Once that was done he poured the Monstrous Nightmare gel into its designated cylinder to await is use.

Hiccup looked out the window, the sky was getting brighter though it was still dark, he needed to get back. He grabbed everything he'd made and quickly hide them in his workshop then left the same way he entered. He made it back to his house without incident and climbed through his hidden door. Once inside he looked around and found no one in his room, which meant Alvin hadn't heard a thing. He closed and locked the door then carefully walked over to his bed and flopped down on it. The instant his head hit the pillow he was out.


Hiccup's head throbbed as he opened his eyes, "What the..?"

"Ya wouldn't wake up so I had to resort to throwin' ya across the room, looked like it worked." Alvin sneered.

Hiccup looked up, "Yeah, if you were trying to give me a concussion. Get the new dragon already?"

"It'll come later today."

"Then why did you wake me up? I was very happy in the land of oblivion, you weren't there." Hiccup stood and Alvin grabbed his arm.

"I don't trust ya to be alone." Hiccup sent him a questioning looked, "A Hiccup alone means disaster for me."

Hiccup nodded, "Be glad I'm not ten, I was a disaster then whether or not I was alone."

Alvin laughed, "I'm surprised ya didn't kill yerself."

"Believe me, it wasn't easy. So what are you going to do with me?" He was getting a bit weary, well more so than usual.

Alvin chained Hiccup then wrapped the other end around his huge wrist, "Yer gonna be with me so I can keep an eye on ya." He yanked the chain to get Hiccup moving.

"I would've thought you would leave that to Savage."

Alvin grunted, "Ya'd get away from 'im to easily."

"Oh, well I guess you can't argue with the facts. Where's Toothless?"

"He's somewhere, I'm not gonna tell ya where though." Well it was worth a shot.

They walked through the village, Alvin barking orders at his men and threatening the villagers. At one point Hiccup saw Astrid looking out her window, they locked eyes and she nearly jumped out to help him. He shook his head ever so slightly and she could tell by the look in his eyes that he had a plan, that instant a large explosion was heard from a few houses down. Alvin began running, dragging Hiccup along with him, towards the disturbance. They stopped, in front of the twins house, "Oh Thor, what have they done now?" Hiccup mumbled.

"What happened?!" Alvin shouted.

"There was Zippleback gas coming from inside…" Shouts from inside cut him off.

"Give that back!" A male voice shouted.

"No! All you do is spend time with it and not me! We need to help Hiccup!" A feminine voice answered.

The male spoke up again, "I need my Macy! I can't do anything without her! Give her back or I'll light this one too!"

"Oh Thor help us." Hiccup deadpanned.

Alvin stood there for a second listening, "Well what are ya waitin' for? An invitation?! Get in there before they destroy the entire village!"

"We can agree one thing." Hiccup said watching the men enter the house to break up the fight.

"That those two are imbeciles?" Alvin asked.

"Not the way I would have put it." Hiccup shook his head.

"No! Not my Macy! Give her back!" Tuffnut shouted as the Outcast threw him back inside.

One of the Outcast's walked over to Alvin, "Found several jars of Zippleback gas in their house."

"Put them in the weapons vault along with the Snot's gel." Alvin walked away, dragging Hiccup with him. They walked into the mead hall and Alvin sat down in Stoic's chair, forcing Hiccup to sit next to him. It made Hiccup shiver thinking how much this was like before he shot down Toothless, except without the chains and he wasn't forced to do it. Presently an Outcast came over carrying two plates, a very large one and a really small one. He set the larger one down in front of Alvin and the smaller one in front of Hiccup.

Hiccup looked at it for a second, same as yesterday but that was to be expected. Alvin dug in pausing a minute later to look at Hiccup who had yet to even touch it, "Eat it 'iccup." He threatened menacingly.

"Why do you care anyway? I'm not hungry." Ok, that was a lie but he wasn't starving and, thank Thor, his stomach wasn't complaining.

"'Cause I don't have any use for a dead dragon conquer. Now eat it before I shove it down ya!"

Hiccup subconsciously scooted an inch away, "Ok, it was just a question, no need to get violent." He picked up the fish and began to eat, little nibbles out of it.

Alvin seemed satisfied and resumed eating, "There's always a need to get violent with you."

"Why do the gods hate me? Why?" Hiccup asked looking up.

"What are you mumbling about Hiccup?" Alvin didn't want him concocting one of his ludicrous plans that almost always somehow worked.

Hiccup shook his head, "Nothing, I don't think their listening anyways. They never are, especially to me."

Now Alvin had to do his best to suppress a laugh on that one. The kid was right, they very rarely listened to him…at first, then they give him some stupid, ludicrous, life or death plan of escape. Not that he was going to say that to Hiccup, "Sir the new dragon came." Savage said running in.

"Ah, good. Time for ya to train some dragons 'iccup."

"Oh, goody." Hiccup rolled his eyes.

Alvin led him down to the arena and shoved him in then walking back to his usual seat, "Release the dragon!" They opened the cage and a Nightmare came out.

Ok, it's just a Nightmare. The Nightmare then burst into flames and attacked Hiccup, a really ticked Nightmare! He dodged the first fire ball, he had to either calm the dragon down-somehow- or get it to leave him alone. He dodged the second flaming ball, ok this dragon was way to tense to even try to get close to it. A third ball hit the weapons rack he was hiding behind, why is it still attacking? They never keep attacking if you hide, it shows that they won. Then Hiccup remembered something, the fish was still in his vest pocket, idiot. He pulled the fish out and dropped it next to the weapons rack, the Nightmare calmed down-just a bit to shut off its flames- and picked up the fish. As he picked up the fish he saw Hiccup still hiding behind the rack and growled.

"Hey, hey, it's ok, it's ok. I'm not going to hurt you." He turned his head and stuck out his hand, the Nightmare closing the gap and pressing his snout against Hiccup's hand.

Alvin watched everything but the most crucial part, the part that could have taught him how to train a dragon, was concealed under the rack and no one could see anything. He was upset yes, but now this dragon was trained it would do what he wanted it to. Hiccup walked out from behind the rack and the Nightmare nuzzled him, "Prepare the dragon for use!" Alvin shouted gleefully.

Half-a-dozen Outcast began filling into the arena when the Nightmare suddenly bolted, breaking the Outcast's line and escaping into the air. The few that remained standing ran and grabbed Hiccup, "Yer gonna pay for that boy. Who's gonna be first hmm? Yer father? How about that girl, Astrid?"

"Leave them alone." Hiccup growled.

"Then stop pulling all yer dragon tricks and make them serve me!"

"I will never train dragons to serve men like you, to serve anyone. Servanthood is a choice, one that the dragon or anyone has to make themselves."

Alvin gripped Hiccup's arm to the point he could no longer feel his fingers, "But slaves have no say in the mater, dragon or no." He shoved Hiccup to Savage, "Take 'im back to the house," He then got incredibly close to Hiccup's face, to the point where he had to turn his head away just so he could see his face, "I'm givin' ya one more chance 'iccup. One more chance before I start exicutin' yer people, startin' with yer father." He then turned and walked away.

Hiccup grimaced, he was going to have to work faster. He had to get everything done by the end of tonight if the village had any hope of surviving.