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The ground shook for a few seconds before silencing. The outcasts looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders. Alvin bent down to pick up Hiccup *[try saying that ten times fast], lifting him up and over his shoulder. He didn't care one bit about his shoulder; Hiccup was able to calm that Whispering Death earlier without his other arm, so he'd be able to do so with other dragons as well. Said dragon from earlier came to the front of his mind.
I wonder where that dragon went.
As if on cue, the Whispering Death drilled through the rock wall, curving through the air as it roared viciously at the outcasts. They all turned in surprise at the unanticipated guest and drew their defense. Arrows were shot towards the beast, but its spikes protruding from its body deflected the feeble weapons. Alvin, along with Savage, began to head forward towards the exit tunnel demanding the other five to take care of the dragon. Said dragon narrowed its eyes at Alvin and rushed him. It dove into the rock floor between Alvin and Savage, and the other five. Due to the instability of the cliff, the path hugging the wall broke apart and fell into the lava, taking the outcasts with it. Savage stared wide eyed at the fact that all of their men are gone. Now he'd have to do all of the work for Alvin.
The Whispering Death came back up and hissed at the last two, who in response ran the opposite way. The dragon dove back down into the Earth, except not the floor below but the ceiling above.
The teens sat in the Great Hall eating their supper mutton. However, no food was touched by any of them as they all did want to eat without Hiccup. Their search for him was a complete failure, if it was one thing they learned today it was that Alvin was good at playing hide and seek. They sat in silence, all looking down at the mutton in front of them. Fishlegs was poking his and lifted his head up to gaze at Astrid.
"Where do you suppose they are?"
"I don't know." she answered him while subconsciously massaging the wrapped up wound on her stomach she got from Alvin. The whole time during the search, she put the pain out of her head to focus on finding Hiccup. Since the search didn't end well, the pain became irritable and she found the only way to help deal with it was to rub it.
"Well it doesn't matter where they are, I'm going to kick Alvin's butt!" Snotlout added.
"Count us in!" Tuffnut replied.
"Yeah, don't hog it all up!" Ruffnut also replied.
"They're underground, but where? There was a hole, and it was huge," Astrid said softly to her friends who were listening intensively. "What kind of thing could make such a hole that big and have it fill up as well?" she asked, the question was bugging all of them.
"Um; Tuffnut's breath?" Ruffnut replied pointing to her brother. In response Tuffnut glared at her as she smiled.
"I know it's bad, but it's not that bad!"
Fishlegs was thinking hard on the question and stood up when a thought crossed his mind.
"What about a dragon? Like a… Whispering Death?" Astrid stood up with a new found hope in her eyes. Snotlout stood up as well,
"Hey, yeah! Wait—what?"
"A Whispering Death, they're part of the Boulder Class like Meatlug and drill tunnels underground, maybe that's what caused the hole." Fishlegs exclaimed.
"We can verify it with the Book of Dragons. It's in Hiccup's room!" She proclaimed excitedly, motioning them to follow her to the Haddock house.
Upon entering they found no one there, well no Viking anyway. Once climbing the stairs, they saw Toothless looking at them with his head and ears raised. But upon seeing who it was, he laid his head back down on Hiccup's bed and cooed sadly. Astrid walked over and pet his head,
"It's okay Toothless, we may have found a way of finding him." She said encouragingly. Toothless raised his head at what she said. She leaned down to reach her hand under the bed and grab the book, but her hand clutched nothing but thin air. Her eyes widened and she gasped.
"It's not here!"
"What! Where is it?!" Fishlegs exclaimed.
"Every one, look around!" Snotlout said as he lifted up the piles of paper on the table.
"I'm not finding anything."Fishlegs said
"Nothing," Snotlout filled in.
"It's not here." Tuffnut said truthfully.
"Maybe Alvin took it along with Hiccup." Ruffnut suggested. It wasn't what Astrid wanted to hear though.
"But it has to be a Whispering Death. Fishlegs can you remember anything the book said about Whispering Deaths?" she asked him.
"Uh, just that its part of the Boulder Class." He said hesitantly.
"What, but you annoy us with a whole load of other stupid information; and now you can't remember anything?" Tuffnut said rather annoyed.
"I—I'm being pressured! I can't think when I'm pressured!"
Astrid sighed, but didn't give up. Toothless nudged her arm and cooed. An idea popped into her head and she pulled out something from her pocket. It was the dragon whistle Hiccup made.
"Guys, we can still find it with this. The whistle will call the dragon up from bellow and then we can follow its tunnels down and find Hiccup!"
"That's crazy! Let's do it!" Snotlout exclaimed and ran out to find Hookfang; the same with the others.
Astrid ran up to Stormfly, Toothless following behind her. She was about to mount, but realized Toothless couldn't fly without someone. She gave it thought and mounted Toothless instead.
"Stormfly, follow!" she said, as she rode Toothless up and away with Stormfly following close by. But in the hay near the back of the coop, the Book of Dragons still lay from when Hiccup threw it there.
I know this chapter is way smaller than the others, but this was all I wanted to have in this chapter. I thank you for the reviews and stay tuned for the next chapters as this will be continued.