Hey guys. I'm really sorry for the long wait. If you don't know why there was such a long wait, I'll give you a moment to read the Author's note before this chapter. (moment) Ok, I also blame schoolwork, and I had allot to do so far over spring break. Anyways, here's the new chapter, hope you guys like it. Please review!
Italics = someone's thoughts
Underlined = a human talking
Toothless/Blaze POV
I took off into the night, silent and invisible. I flew across the water and over the island until I was over the approximate area of the escape tunnel. I landed and searched the ground, being careful to not leave any evidence that I had been there. I finally found the tunnel and carefully wound my way through to the exit at the end. There was a large slab of sandstone in the way, blocking me from the cave.
"Great, now what." I said to myself. I nudged the stone, and it shifted, I tried pushing on it for like five minutes. No luck, it didn't budge. Then I thought, what f it's like the doors humans have on their houses, so they call them. I tried pushing it open like a door and it opened with a creek, like it had never been used, or at least not in a long time. I crept into the hallway. It was a huge sandstone cavern with indents in the walls that held coal fed fires. A little to my left was a dark door way that I assumed led down to the dungeon. The last place on earth I wanted Star to be.
"Hey, you there! Stop!" I heard someone yell. I turned to see a dark blue nadder with a burnt black stripe down the middle of its face, charging me.
Great. One of Roz's guards. Just great. I think to myself sarcastically. The brainwashed maniacs weren't the brightest, but they knew who I was, and for good reason. If I was caught, I was dead.
The nadder charged me with its tail spikes ready. I got into attacking position. He shot 5 spikes at my head, which I dodged easily. I pounced and clawed his wing and shoulder. He tried to hit me with his spiked tail, but I counter-attacked by hitting in the head with my tail, hard. The nadder collapsed to the ground unconscious. I turned around and ran down the passage way into the dungeon. I had to find Star and get her out of here, fast, before the nadder wakes up. Hopefully he will have a concusion and forget I was ever there. Not likely though.
I get down to the dungeon. It's dark, cold, and smells like depression. There are no coal fed fires to heat the space. There is a hall going down the middle of the dungeon, with cells lining it. I slowly creep down the hall looking into each cell for Star. Most cells are filled with sleeping, starving prisoners that are there because they stole food. An old gronkle looks up at me with sad, sunken in eyes. The eyes don't call for help, don't ask for food or warmth, but instead seem to be saying to get out before I get caught. The old, grey gronkle turns his back to me and goes back to sleep. I shake my head to clear my thoughts and continue looking for Star. I reach the end of the hall and take a quick glance in the end cell. I can't find her. I start to panic, thinking they moved her somewhere, or she's already gone. I take a quick glance in the end cell again, losing hope, and turn to leave. Then I do a double take and look again, and that's when I see her.
Star's POV
All I could feel was the cold, hard stone floor of my cell as I lay o the ground, trying to sleep, to get away from this place. I lay still and listened to the rhythmic drip of water from the ceiling. I had been here for only a couple of days, but it showed. The guards had interrogated me for hours, believing I knew something about some guy named zero who was number one on their wanted list. The guards had finally left me alone.
So, here I lay, on the cold stone floor of the dungeon, sore from bruises. I also had a burn on my left wing and shoulder and a long cut running along my tail.
Did the others get out? Are they safe? Will they come back for me? Will I ever see them again? The questions bounced around in my head, and it was killing me not to be able to answer any of them. Then my thoughts started to stray to Blaze. Is he alive? Is he waiting for me? Is he trying to find me? Or has he given up and gone chasing after other girls?
I heard footsteps and braced myself for another long interrogation by the guards. I heard the cell door open and gaze a low growl.
"Easy ice princess, just me." I heard Blaze's voice, and all my worries went away. He's come back for me.
I look at him. "Blaze, you came back for me?"
"Course, I'm not going to leave you here." He said, pulling off the chain from around my tail. "Come on, we've got to get out of here."
"The guards kept trying to get information about some guy named zero from me." I told him. His face grew even more worried.
"I was worried that would happen." He said finally.
"What?"
"Nothing, I'll explain when we get out of here." He answered sharply, gently nudging me out the door.
We hurried through the dungeon and up into the hall, crashing straight into someone. I winced in pain. I opened my eyes to see Blaze getting into defensive mode to protect me, and a black and pink nadder getting up and shaking her head.
"Sasha?!" I asked. "What are you doing here?!"
"I, um, I signed up to be a servant, I needed more food." She shrugged looking guilty.
"Come on." Blaze said, motioning for her to come with us. The skinny nadder looked startled.
"Come where?" She asked. Not fully understanding what he was suggesting.
"To freedom. Ya know, escape."
"What is we get caught."
"We're not going to get caught."
Sasha thought for a second, then nodded. Blaze helped me up and guided us to a sandstone black that opened when you pulled on it.
"What is this?" I asked.
"An escape tunnel. Keep walking, don't look back." He ordered me. He looked around and closed the sandstone slab, locking us in darkness. It took a moment for our eyes to adjust. We all followed the tunnel up to the surface of the island.
Blaze turned to me.
"You think you can fly?" He asked me with concern.
"It think so, If I don't go to fast." I answered. "Depends how far we have to go."
"Just to that island." He said, motioning to the island next to the one we were on. "You don't have to if you can't, I can carry you."
"I think I can manage it." I said.
"Are you sure." He persisted. Gosh, were would be here all night if this kept going on.
"Ahem." We both turned to see Sasha giving us an "are you serious" look. "What part of escaping involves actually leaving the island." She said.
"Come on." Blaze said. We all took off and slowly flew across the starlit water to the neighbouring island. Blaze flew underneath me, I could tell he was worried about me. I looked back to see a dark blue nadder, one of the guards, looking around the place with the escape tunnel confusedly. Close call. I thought.
We reached the island and Blaze called out to unseen people.
"Guys, I'm back."
At, first I thought he was crazy, but then I saw Aurora, the twins, Fern, and Midnight emerge from the trees. I landed on the ground, exhausted from the, even though it was a short one. They all came up to me, saying how glad they were that I was okay, and that they were never letting me out of their sight again. They also were happy to see that Sasha had escaped with us, especially Fern and Midnight, who had been friends with Sasha for a long time. Aurora shooed them away and started to semi-heal the burn on my wing, saying she would properly heal it when we got back to some place called Berk. It all happened in a blurr. I looked up and noticed a monstrous nightmare, a nadder, a gronkle, a zippleback, and another nightfury I didn't know watching us. "Who are they?" I asked.
You could hear some yelling from the entrance to the "tomb" in the distance. Everyone got ready to take off. "Friends, we'll make introductions later" Fern answered. We all took off and flew the two hour journey to this Berk place. I ended up getting carried by Blaze for half of the way back.
So, Star has been saved, but Roz knows about it. Also, there is another night fury in the story. The next chapter is about Fern and Stormfly breaking in to the old cave and getting some of Aurora's herbs. Hope you guys liked this chapter, I will try to update again soon. Pease review!