Chapter 11
The Final Battle
Aleah and Annabeth were thrown into a cell that had been carved into the rock of the cliffs. As the guards walked away, Aleah kicked the bars. "We should be out there, helping Azura! We have to escape." "But how? We don't have any weapons, the bars are iron and the walls are solid rock. There's no chance of escape," Annabeth looked down at her feet. "Have you given up that easily? You may have, but I haven't. We're going to help Azura, and we're going to do it our way. I have an idea. Listen closely..."
Annabeth yelled "Guard, guard! The other prisoner has escaped!" The outcast guards came running (Or stumbling in their usual thickheaded manner). There was only one prisoner in the cell! They opened the door, grasping their weapons nervously. Had the changewing escaped again? Then Aleah dropped down on the guards from the craggy roof of the cell, knocking two out like ninepins. Annabeth grabbed a mace, swinging it at the other. The guard fell quickly, lolling on the floor. She snatched the keys from the belt of one, and together they raced out of the cell, locking the guards in. "Now let's go help Azura" Aleah said as they ran down the corridor.
After we were captured, Dawnstrike and I were separated, and I was taken to a small stone cell. They tossed me in, and I struggle upright with my bound hands, and raced over to the bars. They slammed the door in my face, and walked away chuckling. Slumping down on a small ridge of rock, I cried. I had failed.
Aleah and Annabeth were half way down one of the passages to the dragon arena, when they heard boots marching their way. Looking at each other, they darted down another small passage and saw Outcast guards march past. Annabeth heard one of them say "I hear that Alvin is going to execute that slave and her skrill. I'm glad. That evil dragon has tried to electrocute me multiple times." Annabeth looked at Aleah. Aleah whispered once the guards were past, "We have to rescue Dawnstrike. Then we can rescue Azura." "But how will that help?" Annabeth asked. "We can ride Dawnstrike to rescue Azura. That way we can get there faster and we'll have an extra weapon."
I was sleeping when the guards came. They hauled me out of my cell and marched me along the stone passages until we came to a cliff that was above the sea. There Alvin had Dawnstrike chained next to him. "Dawnstrike!" I cried, as I vainly strained against the guards in an attempt to reach her. "Oh, do not worry Azura, you will be reunited with your precious dragon." Alvin motioned with his hand. The guards chained me to Dawnstrike, and Alvin said "Well, I have waited for this moment for a long time. The day when you will die." The guards pushed me and Dawnstrike to the edge of the cliff, and Alvin told me "Goodbye Azura Rain" as the guards pushed Dawnstrike and I off the cliff to drown.
Aleah and Annabeth arrived at a cliff above where Azura was, and were just in time to see her and Dawnstrike thrown off the cliff below them. "No!" the girls cried out. Alvin's head snapped up and he yelled "Guards! Bring me those vikings!" Guards came rushing up behind them, and Aleah readied herself to fight. They put up a good fight, but were finally subdued, and brought before Alvin.
As I sank through the dark, bitterly cold water, I tried desperately to break free of my bonds. It was no use, and just as I began to lose consciousness, the water lit up with a blue glow. I stared at my necklace, which was emitting the glow. It formed into a bubble around me and Dawnstrike, and we began to rise. I broke our chains, climbing onto Dawnstrike's back. We readied ourselves to fly as soon as we were at the surface.
Aleah and Annabeth fought against their chains as Alvin said "Well, you are apparently accomplices of the late Azura, thus you shall suffer the same fate-" He was cut off by something shooting out of the water. He turned around and saw a blue and gold skrill crackling with electricity with a girl on its back that was holding a crackling blue nimbus of lightning in her hand. Aleah and Annabeth were stunned. It was Azura on Dawnstrike! Alvin was shocked. "How did you escape! You were supposed to die!" "You should not have messed with my friends, Alvin. And now you will pay the ultimate price!" My voice was dark, filled with anger. This man had destroyed my home. He had killed my family, forced me to be a slave, and wouldn't let me go even when I did escape. Anger, hatred, and fury swelled up inside of me and lightning exploded from my hands. Alvin shot into the sky, twitching as volts of electricity coursed through him and flung him into the turbulent sea. After Alvin vanished beneath the dark water, I broke Aleah and Annabeth's chains, and landed. As soon as I landed, I lept off Dawnstrike and ran over to them. "How did you do that?" Aleah asked, shocked. "I- I have become what I was always meant to be. A true Lightning Keeper." Hiccup landed along with the other riders. "We saw what happened," Hiccup said.
I looked at him, finally realizing what Hiccup meant to me. "Let's go home." I mounted Dawnstrike, and together we soared home, to Berk. As we flew through the lightning dawn sky, I looked at my friends. In the moment of truth they had stood by me, a slave girl who had found her true family at last.
As the dragons flew away, a crumpled figure stood on the beach, and shook his fist at the flying dragons. "You will never escape me. I will return and I WILL kill you Azura Rain!" Alvin said, an evil grin splitting his face.
~The End~
Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed this story. It means a lot to me that you think it's good enough to keep reviewing. I would like to thank my sister, ShardofSun, for helping me with this, and the anonymous person MMM who stuck with me. I promise, there will be a sequel. I just have to write it, and I hope that you'll like that one as well.