Again with the fighting my fatigue! I hate this! I just came from a 3-hour drive and I'm tired, but since I also have my priorities here on the story, I've decided to make another chapter..! Yey!
But I've heard about Dagur having a Skrill? I haven't really watched fully of the series, and I've already read fan fictions having Dagur having a Skrill, so I researched a little bit… then BOOM! You know the rest…
Oh well… I have a reason not putting Dagur's Skrill there…
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Chapter 10: Revenge and Profess
"Toothless?" Hiccup whispered to himself
Hiccup looked out and saw Berserkers running at the opposite direction, he hid himself back and heard an explosion, Hiccup looked a little nervous, but decided to peek out again and saw numerous explosions of fire whirling around a part of the fort, he sighed and gripped on the sword and decided to run to find Toothless at the opposite direction the Berserkers headed to
Hiccup slashed and kicked his way through from several Berserkers coming his way, and hid himself from a nearby boulder and peeked out again, he looked at his sword, almost dented and scratched, the sword won't last long, Hiccup threw the sword away and looked around and saw several Berserkers going to the place of explosion, then he looked around and saw one Berserker down with a sword in hand
Okay! I've gotta get that sword, I've gotta get that sword! Okay, Hiccup… don't screw up now and fight like a Viking! Be a Viking!
Hiccup ran to the Berserker and grabbed his sword, then he heard somewhere charging at him with a hammer, then Hiccup immediately dodged it and kicked the Berserker out, but he Berserker stood up and growled and began swinging the hammer around
"Woah! E-easy there! Gah! E-easy!" Hiccup dodged every swing "E-everything will be just fine..!"
Hiccup slashed the hammer away and elbowed the Berserker's face, knocking him unconscious, Hiccup looked back and saw the explosion beginning to quiet down, he knew in himself that it wasn't the kind Toothless blasts so he didn't need to worry about that now, he continued to run to the other direction
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"Stormfly, be quiet… we can't let anyone hear us…" Astrid whispered
Then Astrid began to walk slowly in the shadows, Stormfly just followed her, keeping herself hidden also, then out of a sudden, Astrid was grabbed by one of the Berserkers, he held her and hid in one of the hidden corners of the room, he chuckled at himself finding another prisoner and whispered "Come with me… or die…"
Astrid struggled to get herself out of his grab, then she heard the Berserker chuckled and just hit his stomach with her elbow hard, the Berserker lets go of Astrid, holding out his stomach, then Astrid punched the guy in the face and kicked his groin and kicked him away, Astrid managed to get her axe and was prepared in slashing the guy's face, but instead, she used the axe to knock him out
Stormfly nudged her rider as Astrid mounted her quickly "C'mon Stormfly! Let's get outta here before the Berserkers can catch us!" Astrid hissed, Stormfly quickly ran out of the corner and through the shadows
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"Gods, this fort is big… half of Berk can already fit in this place" Hiccup mumbled at himself
Hiccup looked out and saw no one in the room, he ran to the place and saw multiple tents
I guess this is where the Berserkers stay… Hiccup thought, then he walked into one of the corners between the tents, and can't see much light, he tripped into something and made a thud
Hiccup got his head up and shook his head, he looked back and saw a Berserker unconscious, then he got up quickly and shook the dirt out of his armour, and he grabbed his sword and he peeked out seeing somebody in the shadows, he sneaked up into another corner and peeked out and saw a figure holding an axe, then he readied his sword and began approaching on what he thought was a Berserker
He stepped into the shadows without making a sound and he breathed sharply, then he tightened the grip on his sword and closed his eyes, and once he opened them, he had a better idea
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Astrid heard someone breathing sharply, she looked up and saw Stormfly walking through the high branches, then she looked at the ground again, still walking slowly, then she heard more breathing and readied her axe, she had a tight grip, and looks aggravated
This guys doesn't know when to give up and lay down drop dead..!. Astrid thought
The guy grabbed her and covered her mouth and dragged her into a corner, then Astrid tightened her grip on the axe and she used her one hand to struggle out of the guy's grab, then she held out on the guy's hand, she felt a little confused
Weird, I thought this guy's hand was a lot bigger..?. Astrid thought to herself
She shook the fact off of pushed the guy's hand away and swung her axe (Remember! The part of the axe that I'm talking about is not the edge of the axe with the blade, the body itself) at the guy, hitting him hard, she heard him groan in pain as he fell downwards
Astrid looked down and saw a guy with messy auburn hair "Hiccup?!" Astrid exclaimed
"Ow... that hurt… a lot…" Hiccup managed to speak in between his pain "Ow… Astrid… was that you all along?!"
"Oh, I'm so sorry..!" Astrid exclaimed as she bent down to him, and held his shoulders "I-I didn't knew it was you! Don't scare me like that… oh, for the love of the gods…"
Hiccup supported himself with his hands, Astrid held his shoulders, feeling a little guilty, Hiccup shook his head, trying to shake the pain off, Astrid then, hugged him tightly from behind, she buried her face in his shoulder "I'm so sorry… I didn't knew it was you"
"I-I've should've known it was you before I grabbed you" Hiccup said
Astrid lets go of Hiccup and got up, Hiccup got up also, but Astrid helped him up, then Astrid grabbed her axe, and looked at Hiccup with an aggravated look "You thought I was a Berserker, didn't you?"
"I-I'm so sorry…" Hiccup said
Astrid punched Hiccup's shoulder, but not that hard, Hiccup quickly grabbed his shoulder, oozing with big pain "That's was for thinking I was a Berserker…" Astrid said, before hitting Hiccup's head "And that's for everything else…"
"Seriously?! You're adding more pain when I already had enough beating from your axe?!" Hiccup wheezed
"You deserve it anyway…" Astrid said "Anyways, what happened to you?! You looked a bit scrunched up… what have the Berserkers done to you?"
"Nothing brutal happened, before you swung your axe at me, it's just I've been fighting a lot of Berserkers… luckily I have a sword here…" Hiccup said "I lost my Inferno…"
"Inferno?" Astrid asked
"My flaming sword..!" Hiccup said
"Oh, you mean this…" Astrid said, before pulling a pipe of metal with a fancy design and buttons
Hiccup grabbed his sword and looked happy enough, he smiled at the joy getting his sword back, he pushed the button at the side, revealing his flaming sword, he swung it around slowly, and retracted it, he looked at Astrid with a glint of happiness, his pain was all gone because of his happiness getting his sword back
"Astrid, I need your help in finding Toothless… he's in here somewhere…" Hiccup said
"Sure, and did I tell you that the gang and your dad are in here with me, soon enough, Gobber and Orpheus will come here with the Vikings and dragons all over Berk—"
"Who's Orpheus?" Hiccup asked
"The dragon rider we saw at Cold Pasture!" Astrid said
"Wait, we saw a dragon rider at Cold Pasture? I don't know…" Hiccup scratched his head "All I remember was that we were talking…"
Astrid felt a little confused then she remembered what Orpheus said about the nest's queen and its mist "Wait! It's the mist! It made you forget what happened back there when you inhaled it! It made you forget that we saw a dragon rider and burst of dragons from the north..!" Astrid exclaimed
"I don't know what you're talking about…" Hiccup said
"Never mind what I said just now… we've have a Night Fury to find!" Astrid said, before dragging Hiccup out of the corner
"Okay..!"
Astrid slightly whistled for Stormfly, then the dragon went down from the branch, Astrid and Hiccup quickly mounted at the dragon, Stormfly quickly ran, she hid in the shadows, but they noticed the sun rays, beginning to shine, Hiccup guarded his eyes from the sunlight, Astrid looks troubled "We have to stop the Berserkers now before they can even dock one ship!" Astrid exclaimed
"Wait, you said, dad is here?"
"Yeah… we're fighting off some Berserkers now actually, we're starting this war on a quieter approach" Astrid said "Until Gobber and Orpheus comes with the rest of the Vikings and dragons"
"Hurry, let's find Toothless and confront Dagur about his madness, enraging war upon us…" Hiccup said
"Stormfly, you heard him, let's find Toothless..!" Astrid said to Stormfly
Stormfly squawked and began to fly lowly above the ground, the tall forest were still covering the dragon, and nobody suspected a thing, Astrid looked around, so did Hiccup, till they saw one big lit cave up ahead
"Down there! What is that?" Astrid whispered
"I don't know, let's check it out…" Hiccup said
Stormfly dove down to the cave, Hiccup dismounted Stormfly, followed by Astrid, then they started walking inside the cave
They came inside and looked at some of the cave wall paintings of early times, for many generations, this cave stood, they marvelled at the dragon paintings, there were the Strike class, Mystery class, Boulder class and many more, some of these paintings, they didn't even know which class they were (Ya thinking what I'm thinking? *raises eyebrows*)
"What are these? I-I've never seen this before… this is… this is…" Hiccup didn't find the right words to say "I-I… this thing…"
"It's amazing…" Astrid smiled at the paintings
Hiccup looked at Astrid in awe and smiled at her, Astrid just looked around the paintings, not noticing Hiccup looking at her, then Hiccup looked up again, it felt star-gazing, more like 'dragon-painting-gazing', the view they had was so amazing, they didn't know they were moving in closer, until their shoulders touched, but instincts kicked in, and they adverted each other
"I'm sorry to intrude your little moment there… was that so romantic?"
Hiccup and Astrid looked around and saw Dagur and 2 Berserkers beside him, Astrid narrowed her eyes in anger, Stormfly was in the two riders backs, preparing her tail for a spine shot, Hiccup got his sword and readied it, setting it on flame, Dagur smirked at them and held his hammer
"That moment was really dramatic, I guess… seems like you haven't seen a cave with dragon paintings, huh?" Dagur said, before going to the Skrill painting "See this Skrill… it's… very fascinating, showing all strong… being feared, full of mystery… I gotta say, I like this fella…"
"Y-you had a Skrill before…" Hiccup mumbled, giving out realization
"Yes, did you even remember that? Were you so coped up with change, you didn't even question my Skrill gone?!" Dagur said, before lifting up his hammer "I'll tell you this! I've been lucky I had such a wonderful, strong dragon to be with me, if he wasn't gone… I could've kill your girl right then..!"
"Skrill? Gone?! What do you mean your Skrill gone?" Hiccup asked
"And now you question the great chief of the Berserker tribe Dagur the Deranged?" Dagur said, letting out a small chuckle in the end
"Look we can help you with your little dragon problem, just tell us what happened, and we can help you out, the best way, us dragon riders can—" Hiccup was cut in his sentence
"Dragon riders? So now you say you're the puny, little Riders of Berk…" Dagur said, chuckling at the end "My Skrill DIED BECAUSE OF THESE DRAGONS!"
Hiccup and Astrid were shocked, hearing Dagur statement. They couldn't believe it, dragons killing other dragons, it was unusual, it was weird, having them, kill their own common kind, dragons…
"L-look… I-I don't know if I-I'm hearing this correctly… but, other dragons killed your Skrill?" Hiccup asked, and then he heard Dagur chuckled
"Didn't you just heard what I just said?!"
"B-but it's unusual, dragons killing other dragons? T-t-th-they must've have… some kind of… ugh, past with each other or something, a history that they fought each other… w-what d-d-did it look like?" Hiccup asked
"Hiccup, don't…" Astrid whispered
"A giant dragon… a massive dragon that can squash this fort into tiny bits… it fired at us… well Death got shot… not me… so call it, somewhat a 'weakling' maybe…" Dagur said "My dragon is a weak, weird dragon, who can't even stand up and fight the nest's queen… they looked angry at each other"
"T-the nest's queen..?! But how?! You attacked it?! You attacked the nest?!" Astrid looked curious also
"That's about it… nice hunch…" Dagur said "We were about the dragons… we draw the queen out and started blasting us… well, all the dragons got away, Death didn't… he died because of that dragon, so I promised to myself, that I will not stop killing dragons, till I KILL THE DRAGON THAT KILLED MINE!"
Hiccup and Astrid looked shocked, they were already gasping, it was impossible to kill the nest's queen with only human strength, it wasn't that easy defeating the Red Death, Hiccup lost his foot, Dagur might get into a worse situation than him
"Dagur… y-you don't know what you're saying…" Hiccup said
"Yes, I do…"
"Y-you can't just-just kill a nest's queen..! It's bad enough that I lost my leg into defeating one… what more can you do? Without somebody by your side, protecting you… trusting each other… you've got nothing to protect yourself…" Hiccup said, with a little worry on his tone "You-you have your shields, your weapons and all the Berserkers you want, but it's not enough to kill one nest queen… you need somebody more than just that, a friend… a c-companion… somebody that trusts you and you trust back"
"And why do you need to invade Berk?! If that's all you're after?!" Astrid asked
"Because, Berserkers need slaves… we Berserkers… are far greater than you! We're stronger! You puny Viking fell for those dragons too much… now you're paying the price that your affections caused you…" Dagur said
"We are only the same level here, Dagur! Nobody's far greater than us… we are just people, just Vikings, just Berserkers! The only thing that makes us unique… not greater, but unique than in any other clan, because we have trust, we have trust in us, we have trust in each other, and WE have trust in our dragons!" Hiccup said "Nothing is ever far greater than us, we are of the same level…"
"You irritate me…" Dagur mumbled "Berserkers! Take them to the cells! And this time… don't you ever let get out, or you'll be sorry…"
"Yes sir…"
"And ugh… bring the dragon with the Night Fury…" Dagur said
Then, right then and there, Stormfly shot her spine shots, and it pinned the Berserkers down to their ground, every spot they were pinned, Dagur dodged the spikes and ran outside, then out of nowhere, mist became spreading all over the cave, very fast, Dagur was already out of sight
"Stormfly!" Astrid shouted
Stormfly covered Hiccup and Astrid with her wings, Astrid blocked off the mist in her face and looked at Hiccup "Whatever you do..! Don't inhale the mist! Hold your breath!" Astrid shouted at him
Hiccup lied down to the ground and covered his whole head, Astrid hugged on Stormfly, blocking off every mist from her face, it was cold, Stormfly bowed down at them and closed her eyes, until every was dark out
They couldn't see anymore
Already lying down at the ground
Breathing heavily
In search of each other's hand
The mist made the cave dark, cold and soggy, all they can hear were breaths and a dragon's squawk, it was making the two weak, until they managed to sit up
"Astrid?"
"Yeah, Hiccup?"
"Ugh, just so you know…" Hiccup started off "In case we freeze to death…"
"What?! Don't you think that! Don't you dare think we're ever gonna die" Astrid asked, slightly shivering "Can't you see I'm busy thinking a way outta here—!"
"I love you…"
"What?!"
"I-I l-love you… Astrid…"
Astrid breathed in and out, speechless "Oh…"
"Is that all you have to say? 'Oh'?" Hiccup asked, with a little hint of sarcasm "You know, it's hard for me to say those 3 words and that's all you're gonna say… 'oh'…"
"No, it's just that… it's a lot to take in…" Astrid said "Freezing out here… and with your little wrong timing… it's very… perplexing, I guess…"
"I-I know what you mean…" Hiccup mumbled
"Way to explain things, huh? Hiccup?" Astrid said, almost giggling
"Well, it might be that… you know, wrong timing, but I-I wanna say to you, before I-I can get a complete—c-complete breakdown…" Hiccup said "Nah… it's alright… I just wanna say it to you…"
"Hmm…" Astrid managed a nod "Well, then I love you too…"
"Really?"
"Yeah, you made realize that no matter how much change we can get, well, you know what I mean… well, as long as we trust and care for each other… nothing can get better"
Then Stormfly lit up her mouth and fired a little at the ground, Astrid looked up to Hiccup in-front of her, Hiccup was just looking at the fire, taking time to heat himself up, but he was smiling
"You're right…" Hiccup smiled "Well, this ended up a little bit awkward…"
They chuckled and giggled, they looked around and saw Dagur and the two Berserkers unconscious on the ground, Astrid stood up and mounted Stormfly "C'mon Hiccup, we have Night Fury to rescue, unless you wanna hang out with this guys…"
"C'mon, let's go…" Hiccup said, mounting Stormfly
"Let's go girl!"
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Like Hiccup said, it was a weird and awkward confession, but at least you got your Hiccstrid moment… well somehow… don't worry it'll get better in the next few chapters, JUST. YOU. WAIT.
NOPE, STILL NOT CHEESY!
Well I would to go throw out some shout-outs! From Fan Fiction. Net! I would like to say thank you: roughgunner, pipi96, and jakie016 for keeping me motivated throughout submitting my chapters and of course I would also like to thank all who followed/favourite this story!
Now! On Wattpad! I mean! Just yesterday, I only got about 16 reads, then when I checked a while ago while making this chappie, it boosted to 65! And a few votes and 1 comment! I was like saying 'OH MY GOD!' for like a minute! I almost forgot I'm writing a chapter, so I decided to make a shout out at the ending A/N
So shout outs to: Curlyhorse (thanks for your comment and feedback also), lavenderdragon507, and Jane_Hiccstrid
So this chappie ended up a little late, because I'm still fighting fatigue from a 3-hour journey..! Then I just decided this chapter to be made today than stressing myself with 2 chappies tomorrow…