AUTHORS NOTES
Alright so we're starting to get into the climax of the story with yet another action filled chapter. I was meaning to upload this one last week but I had to shorten it as I just couldn't stop writing! (It took up at least 4 pages!) So after a cutting fiesta and a whole new facelift, the chapter is here! I know it's not really the ideal place to leave off but I think that there's only so much action you can put into a chapter. This might explain to you a bit about Blitzen and what life was like before hand (I was actually thinking of writing a sub story about him but I want to see what you guys think) so anyways enjoy this chapter and leave a review about what you did and didn't like about it. I will be aiming to upload each chapter weekly from now on so things will feel a bit smoother and more scheduled.

LOST

—-–—-—MEANWHILE IN THE CAVE—-—-—

Blitzen woke up from his slumber and seen that it had already gone light. The rays of sun beamed on top of him, magnified by the mounds of crystals that hung from the roof like daggers. Shaking his scaly head, he looked under his paw for Jack but he'd disappeared! He snapped into realisation at the sight of the spot where he once lay. Picking himself up, he tried to communicate with Jack but with no reply. "Jack! Where are you?" He thought but still he didn't answer. Something felt badly wrong about the situation. "What if he was in trouble, what if he was hurt, he could be dead already!" The thought of this somewhat alarmed him and he started to worry. "I should have never left eyes off him." He said aloud. But from the reverberation of his own voice, He heard a whisper outside of the cave and spun around immediately, looking around for the source of the noise. He began to stride slowly towards the entrance, growling as his scales shuddered from head to tail in fear. Suddenly, a group of men jumped up into the cave, armed with battle axes and spears, fearfully shouting their anger at the dragon. Startled, the beast reared and backed up into the dark proximity of the back of the cave. "Aww isn't that that cute?" one of them said, laughing sarcastically with the rest as they edged closer and closer to the terrified creature that stood before them.

"Let me go a...and no one gets hurt!" Warned the terrified dragon, but the figures ignored him and kept coming closer and closer, lifting their spears and getting ready to strike. Knowing that these men wouldn't listen, Blitzen pounced forward towards one of them, sinking his teeth into the figures soft flesh. He yelled out a horrific scream of pain as the bone crushing jaws clamped onto his dying body. The other men fell back in terror at the sight of their fellow comrade being impaled in the mouth of the beast. Lifting him up, he threw the corpse out of the entrance and filled the cave with an immense blast of searing fire. There was nothing left except the charred remains of the body's that once stood in front of him. Covered in the cold blood of the men he just killed, he stood there, traumatized at what he just did. He was meant to protect the humans, not kill them even more! He wasn't helping the stereotype any further and as he could see another hand entering the cave, he knew that there was more of them.

Knowing that he had to escape somehow and find who he was meant to protect, he ran towards the opening in the cave and leaped off the edge, spreading his wings across the cool air that surrounded him. But his freedom was short lived, and as he glided through the warm updrafts, he seen a bundle of ropes launch into the air and tangle around him, squeezing against his body and restraining him from going any further. He roared out in pain as the force clenched onto his tender wings, pulling them towards his body and preventing any further movement. The ropes dragged him down until he was vertical to the ground. He felt weightless as the gravity pulled him down towards the ground, the ropes dragging along side him. Feeling death coming close, he closed his eyes and accepted his fate. Time started to occur in slow motion. He'd lived a long life and as he plummeted towards his death, he started reflecting on it. He remembered the guardian college where he studied, the friends he made; Inferno, Vengance, Stratus, that one beautiful dragoness sitting across from him each lesson he had. "Terra, I think that's what we called her..." The dragon thought. The man that rescued him from the accident, Vodemon, and taught him all the basics of life including the way of the guardian, all the times that he felt sad or lonely, the fact that he had someone to cry on, someone who cared about him. And there was all the times where Endozine and him where always late for class, or forgot to study for the annual exams. But Terra was always there to talk to, although he never had the guts to ask her out to the summer flight, or the annual fire breathing contest. "Way out of my league." He sighed as he seen the ground coming closer to him.

And then there was Jack. He'd remembered when he graduated from collage and being set to protect a human, an actual human, being given the notes and biographical information to revise on, having to leave his beloved friends behind him to walk their separate ways. He remembered having to say the infamous confirmation of the guardians, "I, Blitzen, shall promise to protect this human's life at any cost, even if this means that I will sacrifice mine in the process. I shall not give up on my duty as a guardian and till death takes me, I shall for fill my life long service". Being given the ability to enter the island of the second life, Berk, or Ʃµ³ as it was commonly known as at the time, Having his first visions, when Jack was about five, sitting on an abandoned swing, sobbing, holding a picture of a male and female couple with him in the middle, Jack running away, through the forests and bushes. He felt sorry for the poor guy, it reminded him of his own dragonhood. That's when he'd first made contact with him, telling him to turn back, return to his home because there was always someone out there that still loved him, cared for him, no matter what. Those memories became nightmares, and the nightmares somehow became a scary reality of confused events. He'd failed to do the one thing that he had solemnly promised to do as a guardian and he knew that what was coming to him was what he deserved. Then, everything went black.

Immediately at that moment, Jack yelled out, collapsing onto the floor in an array of unbearable pain. "Oh my gods, are you ok Jack? What's happening to you, was it something I said?" Hiccup asked urgently, trying to rejuvenate him back to his senses. "My...my side, it hurts...Agh!" The words only added to the flow of red hot pain that filled his body like lightning. Astrid came running to the both of them and kneeled beside Jack. "He needs medical attention, I don't know what's going on!" Hiccup blurted out before she could say anything. Jack could hear the obscure voices blur into the background as he drifted in and out of consciousness, unable to cope with the excruciating amount of pain. He could only just hear the reassurance of Hiccups voice, the confusion of the crowd, the shouts of the men lifting him, breaking through the barricade of people that surrounded them. He could hear Hiccups voice urging him on. "Stay with me, ok, you just got to stay awake Jack!" His head was spinning with the craziness of the situation and as he lay there, he could feel his heart beat slow down to a halt. His eyes slowly filled with a sudden blackness and he could hear nothing but his fading heart beats and one last wheezing breath before he fell into the deep well of unconscious.

Jack opened his blurry eyes to a familiar face. "Dad, he's awake!" Shouted Hiccup over the deafening noise. The mead hall was lively at this time of the day, mostly filled with traders and vikings looking to tell their battle stories. "Uhh...where am I?" Groaned Jack as he went to get up, but was held back by Astrid. "No, you need rest. That was pretty nasty back there, what ever it was. Must've been the gods or something." She said as she walked past. "The gods? I don't know, I mean do you really believe in that sort of stuff?" Hiccup asked. "No no no..." Jack mumbled in the background, but he kept going, "I mean, I know I should but..." Jack interrupted him. "No, it wasn't anything to do with the gods. I've had this sort of feeling in the past, but never to this extent." He said. His whole body was still throbbing and his right side felt like it had been smashed against a brick wall and burned, then smashed again. "Something's badly wrong, I think it's Blitzen..." Hiccup looked at him. "Blitzen?" He asked, "You only just escaped from that thing after he tried to kill you, why would you care?"
"Because Hiccup, that thing is my dragon, my friend, my guardian. He's like Toothless to you. You'd give your life to save his, and I'm willing to do the same for Blitzen. He saved me from Toothless because he was going to kill me!" Jack snapped back at him. "So that's why I need to return the favour, I cant just let him die! I just...I just need to see if he's ok that's all." He sighed. "Ok" Hiccup looked down at him. "But you can't go now. Astrid's right, you need to rest. You can't go yet." He said to him. "Hiccup, I need to know if he's ok, and I'm the only one who knows where he is right now! You don't understand, we may not have much time left." Jack said to him, sitting up. "Ok, I'll go get Astrid" Hiccup said to him, knowing that he wasn't going anywhere with this. "But we need to smuggle you out, the others won't let you go that easily.