Burn It To The Ground
Disclaimer: I do not own How to Train Your Dragon or the original plot for this story. I only own the fine details.
A/N: The next chapter is up! I hope you like this one. I did promise it would be up in a week or so, so here you go!
WARNING: There is a little blood in this one.
Chapter 10: The Clock Has Stopped
Astrid cursed quietly under her breath. She reached into a small pocket sewed on the inside of her dress, and pulled out a small cellphone. Quickly she dialed a number. On the second ring a voice answered.
"What's going on Astrid?" Tuffnut's voice asked from the other end.
"Where are you guys? I told you to distract the police chief for the night! The hel are you!" She harshly whispered.
She heared cursing on the other line. Tuffnut and two other voices began arguing with one another. She couldn't tell what they were saying but she could tell something must have gone wrong with their plan.
"I am have no idea how he got there. He and Gobber were here trying to figure out what had caused the break in. Then we started a fire to one of our unused safehouses. We even had a third distraction planned. Ruffnut was supposed to be watching them." An annoyed Snotlout all but growled.
Astrid sighed. The only explaination would be that the police cheif got suspicious with their so called distractions. "Did you space the theft and fire apart from one another?"
Silence met her question. Then Hurried whispers.
"Uhh...we thought we were supposed to make the distractions one right after the other." A hesitant Tuffnut admitted.
It took all of Astrid's will power not to yell at them. The idiots had totally butchered the plan. It would seem Loki had his hands on them tonight. This was definetly not good. Peeking around the corner of the ball room doors she saw Gobber and Stoick arguing with the door men. At least they would keep them busy, at least for a few more minutes. Still she couldn't understand why they had decided to come here of all places. What had tipped them off? They had orchestrated the whole thing so carefully. It just didn't make any sense.
"Well, make your way here stat!" she commanded them harshly."I have a bad feeling. So, hurry up!"
Not waiting for a reply, she snapped the phone closed and made her way back into the ballroom. She sighed sadly. She knew she really didn't want to interupt Hiccup and Toothless's night, but it couldn't be helped. She had to tell them.
XxX
Hiccup was having the best night of his life. Both he and Toothless danced elegantly across the floor. Many of the other dancers watched them and, surprisingly enough, moved quietly out of their way. He could tell the others knew he and Toothless were in their own world now. Toothless just kept staring at him with the strange smile on his face. A smile he couldn't quite place yet. However, he knew it was directed at him. Hiccup smiled right back.
"Escuse me sir." A voice said next to Toothless. Both turned to meet a young women wearing a scarlet victorian dress and white mask stood next to them. But the voice...
"Astrid?" Hiccup asked.
She smiled at him then turned back to Toothless. "Sir, we have a problem. It would seem that the others ruined the plan and now the Police Chief is here."
Toothless sighed in fustration and ran a hand through his hair. "Great. So, we should move to plan B then?"
Astrid nodded, then turned and walked away from the couple. Hiccup watched her go totally confused.
"What the heck is plan B?" He asked Toothless
Tothless just smirked. "It is our back up plan in case this happened."
Hiccup just rolled his eyes. he guessed that already, but he knew that Toothless would never explain the whole plan to him. It was infuriating.
"If dad catches you with me, both of us will be screwed." The teen pointed out.
Toothless careful danced his way toward the doors leading into the garden. His eyes stayed focused on the main door as they made their way across the ballroom. Toothless slowly eased them out the doors and into the garden. As soon as they stepped outside, Stoick and Gobber stepped into the ballroom.
The couple quickly slipped further into the garden.
They could just see Astrid slip past the two policemen and down the hallway. Neither being the wiser. Toothless grinned. Those two had no idea Toothless's second in command Had just slipped past them.
"Sorry about this Hiccup."
Hiccup stared at him in surprise. But, before he could ask the mob boss what he meant, Toothless pushed him into a bush in the garden. Hiccup landed with a whump as the air rushed out of his lungs. He watched as Toothless stepped into the light leaking out from the ballroom.
"Yo, police chief! Looking for someone?" He joked.
Instantly, Gobber and Stoick began pushing their way through the dancers. The dancers ran out of their way when they saw who they were. Toothless waited till they had covered half the distance across the room then turned and ran off into the garden.
Stoick and Gobber picked up speed seeing the mob boss take off running. As they passed Hiccup's bush gobber stopped.
Stoick kept running after the mob boss. Hiccup sttod stock still as Gobber came over to the bush.
"Hiccup? Is that you in that bush?" Gobber asked peering in to the bush and seeing the teen sprawled on the ground.
Holding out a hand, he helped the teen stand."I fell into the bush because I wanted to get a closer look." Hiccup answered sarcastically.
Gobber looked at him sternly, but did not laugh at his sarcasm. The teen knew he was in trouble.
"Why were you at this Masquerade Party? And why were you hidden in the bush so close to Toothless?" Gobber asked quietly.
Hiccup looked away from the man he thought of as his second father. He had told Gobber everything he knew he couldn't tell his father since he was seven. His green eyes moved from the ground, where he hadn't relized he had been staring at, and stared Gobber in the eyes.
"I have been seeing Toothless for the past couple of days now. He...He invited me to this Masquerade Party tonight..." Hiccup replied hesitantly.
Gobber grinned at him." Is that all? You have a boyfriend and who decided to hide it?" He burst out laughing.
"Your...your not angry?"
"No! Of course not! To think You finally found you a girl...I mean boyfriend. Plus, you are not good at hiding things, you know." Gobber smacked him on the back. The teen just stared at him in shock. Did he just say he wasn't angry at him for hanging out with Toothless? Now the teen was seriously confused.
A string of gunshots sounded through the still night air. Hiccup and Gobber stood still. Both turned toward the direction the sound came from. They came from the same direction Toothless and Stoick had ran off. The teen and Gobber stared at one another, then took off toward the sound.
Arriving Hiccup and Gobber ducked behind a nearby bush. In front of them the police chief and a couple of his men had Toothless, Snotlout, Tuffnut, Ruffnut and Astrid penned down. Both sides continued to fire at one another. Hiccup looked on in dread. This was not good. Someone was bound to get seriously hurt. Just as he thought it, one of the Policemen went down. A bullet buried in his right shoulder. The man held a hand up to the wound, blood rushing through his fingers. One of the other policemen grabbed him and began dragging him to safety.
After the man got shot, it was as if everything was happening in slow motion. The teen could feel himself stand up,
but before he could take a step, a heavy hand landed on his shoulder a pushed him back into his hiding place. stoick's gun fired. The bullet found its mark. The man Hiccup's father had just shot looked stunned then fell to the ground. The gunshots stopped instantly. The Dragons stared in shock, too stunned to move. Their leader, Toothless, lay on the ground. The bullet had hit him right in the chest.
Astrid was the first to move. She rushed to Toothless. Snotlout followed a second later. Both picked him up and hurried away as fast as they could. Stoick and his men let them go. Stoick knew Toothless had suffered a fetal wound. There was no way he could survive that wound.
Gobber held the teen close to him. Hiccup wasn't even aware that tears streamed down his face.
A/N: Oh noes! What have I done! But, do not come after me with pitchforks yet people! There is still one more chapter left. The last chapter shall be up soon. *hides behind couch.*