I know, I know. This is a lot later than I said I would post it but honestly, I completely forgot what I had planned to write next so I took a bit longer trying to remember and having horrible writers block through the whole thing. But I'm updating two chapters today.
On Alvin's ship, Alvin was devising a plan of how to capture Hiccup and make him his own slave. The rest of the crew was below deck listening to their leaders plan.
"We will kidnap him in his sleep and steal him away on the ship. Once we get back to Outcast island, I'm gonna brand the little runt as my own." Alvin said with a wicked grin.
"What about after he does what we want?" Savage asked.
"Well then we kill him along with the rest of his village. But we'll let him watch them die first before he joins them." He said with an evil chuckle. The rest of the men joined in on the maniacal laughing.
Winston stayed in the barn all day claiming to be mucking out the stalls. He sat back in one of the stables and tinkered with the small pieces of metal the slaves had collected from around the island. A diagram was in front of him that Hiccup had designed. Winston did his best to follow it. He continuously flipped it around thinking he was looking at it upside down since none of it made any sense to him. Hiccup slipped into the barn behind Maldrigards back and went to see how Winston was doing.
"How's it coming?" He asked. Winston gave a frustrated growl.
"This is useless Hiccup! I can't understand this!" He growled throwing the a metal gear to the floor. It rolled across the floor and hit Hiccup's prosthetic. Hiccup then got an idea. Picking up the gear, he took of his prosthetic off and tossed it the Winston. He looked at it a little disgusted and confused.
"Hey! What are you throwing your leg at me for!" He shouted.
"Look at it, Winston." Hiccup ordered as he balanced himself on one foot. Winston hesitantly took the fake leg into his hands and looked down at it.
"What about it? It's just a fake leg." He said.
"Is it? Or is it more? Look at the design. The insides. How does it work?" Hiccup asked. Winston looked closer. Soon he started turning it over in his hand and examining every inch of it. Then he picked up a thin metal rod that goes to the contraption Hiccup drew a plan out for. He stuck the rod inside to carefully move the spring so he could look deeper into it. He became so engrossed in the design of the leg and the thought put into it and how it compares to the project he's working on that he never even noticed he was slowly putting the contraption together he once said was impossible to understand. He reached to his side still examining the leg and felt to grab another piece of metal when his hand met only dirt. He looked down shocked.
"Winston?" Hiccup called. Winston looked up at him. Hiccup was smiling before he looked down in front of Winston. The boy looked to where Hiccup was looking and his eyes went wide.
"Did... Did I do that?" He asked as he stared at it in amazement.
"You sure did." Hiccup said.
"But... How?" He asked.
"Curiosity. You were so interested in how that leg was put together and how it operates that you started comparing the two and soon you put it all together." Hiccup said. Winston was stunned. Hiccup hopped over to him and patted his back.
"Well done, Hiccup." Hiccup said. Winston smiled up at him.
The sun had finally setting and it was time to put the plan into action. The slaves returned to the barn as if to go to sleep but instead they started setting up for the big plan.
"Okay everyone, we've got one hour before Alvin and his men start coming. We need this ready and done before then. If he catches any of us we're dead." Hiccup said as the slaves ran, jumped, and swung around the barn putting things together. Five slaves ran into the barn gasping for air from the run.
"Everything is set Hiccup. And we saw the Outcasts. They're on their way." A young boy slave said. Hiccup nodded.
"Good. Start helping the others finish in here. The Outcasts will be distracted long enough for us to finish this." Hiccup said. The two young slave boys nodded and ran into the barn and helped with final preparation. Fin then came up beside Hiccup.
"Hey Hiccup? Um just a quick question." He said nervously.
"Yeah, Fin?" Hiccup asked turning toward the boy.
"Why... Why exactly did you choose to do this on the night of the full moon. The only night dragons come and invade the island?" He asked. Hiccup turned back to the active slaves.
"There's a lot of things you know about me, Fin. But there are also a lot of things you don't know about me. And my choice on the time of the plan is something you will soon know. But I can't tell you yet." He said. He then looked back at Fin who was looking rather confused at the boy. "But I have to ask you to trust me and do exactly as I say, when I say it. You have to believe I know what I'm doing."
"And if you don't know?" He asked.
"If we fail... Well let's just say we'll be free either way." Hiccup said walking away from Fin. Fin stood in the same spot with fear swirling in his wide eyes. He looked to where Hiccup walked off to.
"Both frees are 'alive' frees though right? Hiccup?" He called out to the boy in a fear filled tone.
