Chapter 11

Now we get to the exciting stuff! I'm not going to keep you from reading it so here it is! :3

I woke up the next morning and slowly uncurled myself from the ball I was in. I yawned and opened my eyes seeing my breath in front of me when I breathed.

I sighed and got out of the bed carrying Stoick's cloak with me. I came down the stairs and looked to see Stoick starting a fire.

"Morning," I said coming up beside him.

"Oh, good morning Aurora," He said glancing up at me then standing after he had the fire going.

"Here's your cloak, thanks for letting me use it," I said quietly.

"It's no problem," He said a small smile on his face while he took the cloak from my grasp, his fingers brushing mine.

"Would you mind?" He asked gesturing for me to put the cloak back on him.

"Oh yeah," I said taking it from him while he turned around and kneeled down for me.

I started securing the clips when Stoick spoke again," Did you look outside yet?"

"No, why?" I asked him once I finished and he stood turning to face me.

He gestured to the door and I walked over to it, opening it slowly to reveal the light blanket of snow on the ground.

"Wow," I said, fully realizing what the snow meant. Winter was setting in and I couldn't leave until it was warm enough.

"Right now though, it's not cold enough for the water to freeze over, that won't happen until later in the year," Stoick said, standing behind me.

I rubbed my arms when a light cold wind blew," It's cold."

Stoick set a hand over my hand that was on my arm and gently pushed me inside," Let's stay inside for now."

We came back inside and sat down, Stoick in his chair and myself on the bench," Don't you have things to do today, Stoick?"

"I do, but it's cold and I'm not going to worry about getting to work right away with the cold temperatures," He told me.

"Oh, makes sense," I said," On the next clear day I'll try to get out of here."

"Where will you go?" He asked quietly.

"I don't know, somewhere," I said.

"The village will miss you, you know," He said.

"Oh yeah?" I said looking over at him.

"Really, anymore the only one who complains about you is Mildew but I expect that from him. But since you've proved that they can trust you and you've helped defend us, they trust you now," He told me and I felt my heart clench as he told me this.

"C-can I tell you something?" I asked my voice cracking at the end.

"Of course," He said.

"I um..." I was trying to tell him, but my mind refused," I'm starting to trust the people here too."

He looked at me for a moment before speaking," Well, that's good, I'm happy."

I was scolding myself in my head, why couldn't I tell him? Probably because if he found out I was practically an Outcast, he would throw me out or worse, kill me. That's what I feared the most, was being killed by the man that I had to come to care about deeply.

I was shaken out of my thoughts by someone knocking or more like hitting the door. Stoick stood and walked over to the door, opening it. A man, not quite as tall as Stoick, but no less a large man, stood outside.

"Spitlout, what can I do for you?" Stoick said.

"Stoick, there were Outcasts spotted on the island this morning," Spitlout said.

"What?" Stoick asked with shock.

I felt my chest tighten and my hands started shaking along with the rest of my body going into tremors. Alvin was on the island, possibly looking for me, no he was defiantly looking for me.

I had to leave now, if Alvin were to find out that I wasn't here then he would lose interest in Berk and continue searching for me, hopefully.

I was shaking and I felt sick at the thought of what could happen if I didn't leave. Stoick's conversation with Spitlout had been tuned out so I didn't know what they were planning. I pushed myself up off the bench and felt everything start spinning before I fell back down to the floor, and everything went black.

I blinked and rubbed my eyes before looking around, seeing that I was back in bed. Or was I in bed the whole time, I hoped that that was all just a terrible dream. But my head was throbbing so that gave me a bad feeling. I jumped when I heard a door open the close with a loud slam. I swallowed hard, afraid that it was Alvin and he had found me. I closed and sunk down further under the blankets.

"Aurora?" A voice said and I looked to see that it was Stoick," Are you okay?"

I stared at him for a moment," Y-yeah, I think so."

"What happened earlier?" He asked me.

"I don't know," I said quietly.

"As long as you're alright now," He said," I just got back from a meeting up at the great hall, we are all prepared for Alvin and the Outcasts to attack."

I felt sicken again and then extremely sad, I shut my eyes and scolded myself when I felt tears leaving a burning trail down my face.

"Aurora, what's wrong?" He asked me reaching forward and brushing the tears away with his thumb.

I was choking on sobs when I finally spoke," He's here because of me."

"What?" Stoick said with disbelief.

"Alvin, he's here because of me, he wants me, that's where I came from," I explained through my sobs.

I glanced over at Stoick and my heart was broke, he had this look of complete disappointment and sorrow on his face.

"You're an Outcast?" He asked quietly.

I didn't answer, I just closed my eyes and turned my head away.

"My village would need me to kill you if they found out," He said in a hard tone," I'm going to let you off easy though, leave Berk and don't ever come back."

My heart was shattered at this point, I knew I had overstayed and that this would go badly. I should've known that Stoick would never really care about me and neither would the village.

I looked over at Stoick one last time and could see in all of his mixed emotions that a part of him was sad. But I couldn't look past the utter distrust and hatred that was there too I shook my head slightly before standing grabbing my jacket and running out of Stoick's house.

I didn't know how long I ran for, it felt like hours but I knew it wasn't. Tears blurred my vision and I couldn't see where I was going very well, I knew that Toothless would eventually find me, once he realized I was gone.

I had been broken again by another man, Stoick had made me trust him, care for him, only to have him break that.

I was jolted out of my thoughts when I ran into something and fell back onto the ground. I shook my head and looked up to see Alvin standing in front of me.

"Well well well, I was starting to think that I had truly lost you, but we both know you'll never really escape me," Alvin said standing above me," All I have to do now is destroy Berk for ever housing you."

"No! Alvin please," I exclaimed getting up on my knees and grabbing onto his shirt," Please, leave Berk be, I'll go with you and stay with you if you leave Berk be."

"Very well Aurora," He said," Savage, go down to Berk and thank Stoick for handing her over. Tell him that she will be properly punished for her actions."

"Yes sir," Savage said cowering slightly before him.

He ran off in the directions think I came and I turned back to Alvin who grabbed me by the arm and pulled me up.

"Come on, we're heading back to Outcast Island," Alvin said keeping one hand tight on my shoulder," And it looks like my work is already done with that dragon of yours, he's abandoned you."

I let more tears fall as I kept telling myself in my head that Toothless wouldn't give up on me, but I knew he couldn't get to me on Outcast Island because he can't fly without me. I wanted to die at that moment, the only thing that was keeping me going was knowing that Toothless was out there and he needed me.

Alvin threw me into the Outcast ship and threw the anchor in before climbing in and we started sailing away. No one else was in the ship with us.

"You know Aurora, I never understood why you started running away, you want to explain that to me?" He asked me.

"You're a monster Alvin, the first year that I knew you I actually sort of cared about you," I explained looking him dead in the eyes even though mine were filled with tears," But then you turned evil."

"No Aurora, you were the one who turned, you took the dragons side," Alvin said a scowl on his face.

"The dragons are only bad if we force them to be! I don't understand why you can't reason with anyone," I exclaimed.

He chuckled," I used to reason with people, until I realized that reasoning got me no where."

"Alvin, you could be a good man if you just changed your ways," I said to him softly.

He gazed softened for a spilt second but immediately went back to his angry scowl. He just grunted and turned away from me. I rested my head back against the hard wood of the ship and closed my eyes, fearing what Alvin would do to me once we arrived to Outcast Island.

*Third Person POV on Berk*

Stoick had made his way down into his living area and collapsed in his chair. He looked down at his hands to see them shaking so he clenched them tightly to try and make the shaking stop.

The truth was that he didn't want to throw Aurora out, but throwing her out was better than killing her. He knew that he would have to if the village found out, he would simply tell them that she had left and that she had wanted to say goodbye to everyone. He covered his face with his large hands, he felt terrible because he had come to care deeply for her.

He wished that she had been anything other than an Outcast. He could've worked something out if she was something else, but an Outcast?

Stoick jolted when he heard a loud knock at the door," Stoick open up!"

He recognized the voice as Gobber," Come in Gobber!"

The door opened and Gobber came in with Savage in front of his hook hand," He says he just came to talk and that all the other Outcasts have left."

Stoick stood and walked over to stand in front of Savage," Well, what is it? What do you want to say?"

"Alvin sent me here to thank you," He told him.

Stoick furrowed his brow," For what?"

"For handing the girl over, that was the reason we came," He explained.

Stoick just stared at him with a hard stare.

"And he also wanted me to tell you that she'd be properly 'punished' back at Outcast Island, if you know what I mean," He said grinning at the end.

"Gobber, leave us," Stoick said.

"Okay," Gobber said before making his way out.

"What do you mean Savage?" Stoick asked once Gobber was gone.

"Alvin has his ways of showing her who's in charge," He said to Stoick.

"Do you mean that he," Stoick swallowed hard,"...rapes her?"

"You're a smart man Stoick, always have been," Savage said.

Stoick was furious, he knew now why she was so scared and nervous when she was around himself," Get out Savage, go back to Outcast Island and don't come back."

He scurried out and Stoick made sure that Gobber escorted him off Berk. Stoick decided that he would go and get Aurora back, she wasn't an Outcast, she was abused by Alvin. He stood in the middle of his house and tried to figure out what to do.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw something move and he looked to see Toothless was poking his head from upstairs.

Stoick slowly made his way over to the Night Fury," Toothless...Alvin took Aurora, I need you to take me to Outcast Island."

Toothless came the rest of the way down the stairs and look at Stoick then at his tail and the pedals on his saddle then back to Stoick.

"Right, the tail has to be controlled, correct?" Stoick asked him and Toothless nodded," Alright, I'm going to try, because we both want the same thing right? To get Aurora back safe?"

Toothless nodded again and Stoick led him outside the house where Gobber was just coming back," Savage is clear of the island Stoick."

"Good," Stoick said climbing onto Toothless.

"Uh, what are you doing?" Gobber asked.

"It's a long story but here's the short version, Aurora was taken by Alvin because apparently Alvin abuses her. I kicked her out because I thought she was an Outcast," Stoick explained quickly.

"So...she's not an Outcast?" Gobber asked clearly confused.

"No, I don't believe so, just trust me Gobber, I have to save her," Stoick said looking at Gobber.

Suddenly Gobber laughed loudly," Haha! I knew it! You fell for her didn't you?"

Stoick sighed and rolled his eyes," Now is not the time Gobber! I have to save her!"

"Then go Stoick, I'll watch over Berk while you're gone, you're sure you'll be alright?" He asked him.

"I'll be fine Gobber, I've got Toothless," He said before Toothless suddenly took off from the ground.

Stoick held on tightly before he realized that he had to control the tail. After about fifteen minutes of expirementing, Stoick had gotten the hang of it and was making his way to Outcast Island.

He would make things right and save Aurora, even if it meant losing his own life.