Alright, so when we last left off, our group had found former Berk inhabitant Mildew out in the desert and decided to stop at a stable house to rest and give Mildew some water, while The Comandante made a deal with Marcos Cortez to bring Puss in Boots to him for a $1000 reward and Marcos would take care of the rest of the group. I will include some more references to westerns in case you guys don't know. Make sure you guys leave a review when you're done and enjoy.
Chapter 11
The group made their way into the stable house, with Mildew as they brought him and Fungus into the place. The owner had agreed to let them stay for a while, although at first he was shocked to see a dragon with them, Hiccup told him that he had nothing to worry about. The wagon was parked outside, while Angus and Toothless were placed in the stables to be given water, with Angus getting apples and hay while Toothless was given some fish that Hiccup had brought in his bag. Puss and Kitty were resting on a small pile of hay while Astrid and Merida were getting water from the well outside and the rest were with Mildew explaining why they had traveled out here so far, with the old man listening to everything that Hiccup was telling him.
"And after a while, I had been forced to train dragons for their own use" Mildew said to them "Then, they heard the rumors about you and your little group finding a map that led to some gemstones, and they decided to go after it, bringing me along with them as well.
"How did you escape them?" Merida asked when she and Astrid came back with the bucket of water.
"Well, I had been with them one night and when the moment was right, I grabbed Fungus and the two of us escaped out into the desert where I'm sure that they wouldn't follow me by now"
"Well you are safe with us senior" Puss said to the old man. The old man looked at the cat a little confused and Hiccup leaned over to him
"We know it's weird but you get used to it" Hiccup replied. The old man nodded and Merida went over to him with a pale of water in her hands.
"Here drink this, it will make you feel better" Merida said to him lowering it to his face. Mildew obliged to the offer and allowed the tip of the bucket to reach his lips, and drank some water before Merida put the bucket right next to him and petted Fungus on the head a little bit before walking over to give her horse some hay and water. Astrid was feeling kind of suspicious about the way Mildew was acting and felt that maybe he wasn't telling them the whole truth, and Django was feeling the same way.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking" Django said to Astrid.
"I think so" Astrid replied knowing what the problem was. They walked over to the hay piles and turned to Merida and Hiccup who were feeding their animals.
"Hiccup, Merida, can Astrid and I have a word with you guys alone" Django asked the two cousins.
"Sure" Hiccup replied.
"Of course" Merida added. They followed Astrid to a small stable away from the group and turned to them.
"We're not sure if this man is telling us the whole truth" Django said to start off with.
"What, why do you think he would be lying to us?" Hiccup asked him.
"Remember all of those times when he was threatening our dragons" Astrid said "He even had them shipped off the island once after accusing them of destroying the armory once"
"I know it's hard to trust this guy" Hiccup said "But when we were escaping, I owed him my life, and I'm trying to return the favor to him. He was kidnapped by the outcast's and held on their island for I don't know how long"
"Yeah and don't you think that even if he was telling the truth he may have started to side with them" Astrid said.
"I don't know about you two, but he is an old man that needs help, and we are giving him help" Merida said.
"Come on" Astrid said annoyed by this. As they continued to argue, Django started to notice that several group of men were coming up the hill towards the stable house and saw that one man was right in front of a window with a crossbow in hand waiting to strike. The man, who is an Outcast rose his crossbow, aimed it towards the members of the group, but before he could fire, Django whipped out his gun and fired. The shot hit the Outcast and sent him straight to the ground. The shot startled the group as they turned to where Django had fired the shot. Mildew looked nervous at this until he heard a click, and turned to see Django pointing the gun at him.
"Well old man" Django said to Mildew "If your friends stay out in the blazing heat, they're liable to burn up aren't they. Or get shot" The old man looked nervous, and knew that his long act had finally come to a stop.
"Alright then" Mildew said before turning to one of the windows while Django still pointed his gun at him "It's alright lads, they know we're here, you can come out now" soon after that, Outcast soldiers started to reveal themselves to the group. Some of them were poking their heads (and some with their crossbows) through the window, while some entered the room through the front door. The men that came in cleared by and revealed Alvin the Treacherous and Savage as they walked in towards the group. Alvin looked at Hiccup and Merida, and then looked at Django who was still pointing his gun at Mildew.
"Well, I thought that it would take a while for you to fall for it, but it looks like you are a lot smarter than you seem" Alvin said to Django impressed.
"More than you know" Django replied to his comment while still having the gun in his hand. The rest of the teens were confused until Hiccup finally understood what was going on and turned to Mildew.
"You tricked me" Hiccup said to the old man "I helped you escape from that island just so you could learn how to train dragons for the Outcasts?"
"Oh Hiccup, it took you this long to figure it out" Mildew said "I had to anyway, if you would see how they use dragons it would prove how dangerous and wild they really are. You're far too young Hiccup, to see the true nature of these creatures"
"I never should have owed you my live back there" Hiccup said in disgust "You're nothing but a traitor"
"Eh, get use to it" Mildew said "The important thing right now is that we have you all here now, including that lad over there and those two cats" two guard grabbed a hold of Puss and Kitty to make sure that they don't escape, and then Alvin turned over to Django, with the gun still in his hand.
"How did you know we were coming boy?" Alvin asked Django.
"I saw a few of your men off in the distance" Django replied "Believe me, I'm faster than you or any of your men"
"Is that so?" Alvin said curiously.
"I believe so" Django replied "You've got a lot of nerve following us, what is it that you want"
"Just give me the map to the Gemstones and we'll leave you in peace" Alvin replied. Django hesitated for a minute unti an Idea popped into his head.
"Of course" Django replied "I'll just get the map and give it to you and be on our way" Merida and Hiccup were shocked by this as he went over to the bag and rummaged around for it. While he was looking in the bag, Django looked up at Merida and Hiccup and gave them a wink before continuing his search. Although Merida and Hiccup weren't sure what the gunfighter was planning, they felt as if he was playing something with this. Soon, Django took out a rolled up piece of paper and got up, he went over to Alvin, and gave the rolled up paper to him.
"There it is as promised" Django replied.
"Very good" Alvin said with a smile "But if I would let you get on your way, how do you suppose that you will even get out of here"
"Well, that I'm not sure of" Django replied "But those cats over there usually know" The men looked at the two anamorphic cats and started to laugh, thinking that it was all just a joke.
"He is right amigo" Puss said to him "Kitty and I have our ways of breaking out"
"And what would that be?" Alvin asked both cats.
"You know that knife that you have in your pocket" Kitty said to him.
"Yes of course I know" Alvin said before Kitty held out a knife that she had secretly taken with her extremely soft paws.
"I snatched it while you weren't looking" Kitty said with a smirk as she quickly sliced the ropes that were bound to her hands, as well as those that held Puss, and jumped the guards for their swords. Merida quickly took her bow out and fired an arrow, which hit an Outcast, the Viking teens started to tackle the Outcasts and a massive brawl began. Vikings were throwing fists at each other, some hit their targets, while some didn't, and the two cats clashed swords with some Outcasts. Only Merida's arrows were able to knock the crossbows out of the hands of several Outcasts. Mildew got up from the hay pile and was making for the exit to escape and wait outside, but Django saw him leaving and fired a shot. It missed and hit the wall, but that shot was able to trail the old man off before he hit a hanging bucket and was knocked to the floor. Suddenly, gunshots were starting to ring, and both groups looked to see that there was another gang that had followed them to the place, and they too had some guns and crossbows. The battle quickly became more intense as bullets and arrows were flying everywhere. Django saw the gang members come in and fired each of his shots at the attackers that were coming in through the door or windows.
"Fall back" Alvin yelled to his soldiers "We have what we need anyway" the soldiers complied and followed Alvin to the front door with Savage and a few other provided cover fire for their escape.
"But Alvin, what about Mildew" Savage asked him.
"Forget him" Alvin said "Let's go" Savage nodded as he and the others followed their boss outside to their dragons. Hiccup and Merida knew they had to get out as well, and both went to get the horses and Toothless while the others would get their things and drag Mildew's unconscious body to the wagon and Django held off the gang members. After a tense fight, he made it to his horse; as did Puss and Kitty, and they rode off away from the stable house that was not a mess to catch up with the rest of the group.
As the group was recovering from the ambush and attack, Hiccup and Merida were looking upset and worried, as they feared that the map was gone and they wouldn't be able to get to the gemstones without it.
"Great, we just lost the map" Hiccup said worried. Merida then turned to Django, who was reloading his gun.
"Why did you just give them the map!?" Merida asked angrily at him "Now they will get to the gemstones first and we don't even know where they will go.
"Oh, I have a feeling that they won't get to those gemstones sooner or later" Django replied coolly.
"What do you mean" Merida asked confused. Django, said nothing, but instead, took out a peace rolled up paper from his bag and unrolled it so that the group could see it.
"The real map" Django said to the two cousins "Safe and sound" The two cousins were surprised and shocked by this and took the map from Django's hands so they could a look for themselves.
"He's right" Merida said to the group "This is the real map"
"Yeah, with the real symbols, the poem and everything" Hiccup said "But what was the one that he gave to Alvin?" They turned to Django, who looked at the others until Kitty and Puss stated to get what he did.
"You gave them a fake map, didn't you Django" Puss asked.
"Yep" Django replied to them "I was studying that map when they first showed it to me, and a couple of times when you were sleeping, I was making a copy of that map using another map of the country that I had found, but I put the wrong directions on there so that in case anyone catches us, I would give them the wrong one so that they would go the wrong way"
"Wow, even I couldn't pull a prank like that" Tuffnut said impressed.
"At least we still have the map" Hiccup said to the group.
"Yeah, but there is only one thing to figure out" Django said.
"What would that be?" Merida asked him. Django slowly looked and turned to where Mildew was.
"What to do with him" Django said referring to Mildew. They all turned to the old man that almost sold them out to the Outcasts. Fungus was walking over to him as the old man started to regain consciousness and look over to the teens that were all looking at him, some in anger, a few with a smirk, and Toothless just growled.
Minutes later, the group was traveling down the dirt road, with Hiccup, Merida, Django, and Puss and Kitty on their usual steeds and the rest of the group in the wagon. Attached to the back of the wagon, was a rope that was pulling something behind the group. What the rope was pulling was Mildew, who was tied up and had no way of escaping. He could move, but only take small steps as his feet were tied up as well and Fungus was next to him.
"Now just wait a minute" Mildew said from the back trying to reason with them "Let's just talk about all of this, I'm just an old man, you know. I know that what I did was wrong but all things can be forgiven right. Now I don't think that you all would-" Just before he finished, a shot rang out and hit the ground right next to Mildew. The old man was startled by this and turned to see Django with one of his guns out still smoking. The gunslinger turned to the old man who was now in a mix of shock and anger.
"Sorry" Django said sarcastically to him. After that, Django put his gun back in his holster and Mildew's reasoning quickly turned into cursing.
"You evil little brats" Mildew yelled "You'll all pay for this. I hope you end up in graveyards, with all the people you know around them! Cut me loose, cut me loose!" Mildew continued to throw insults and curses until Snotlout gave a pull of the rope to keep him quite as they continued to pull him from behind.
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The group continued to pull Mildew from behind as the day went on. The old man kept waddling as he was tied up until he fell to the ground and ended up being dragged from behind. Meanwhile, from a far distance, Marcos and some of his men were watching them from a stone hill, and Marcos seemed impressed.
"Well, it looks like this group is close than we thought" Marcos said before turning to two of his men "Follow them" the two gang members complied and started to walk down the hill and secretly follow the group.
Vesta and her witch sisters were looking through the stable as it was empty. Vesta herself was viewing the building as he servants were sniffing about for a scent to pick up.
"They were here" one of the witches said "I can smell their stench"
"Follow it" Vesta ordered to her sister.
"Yes Vesta" the witch replied. As she and some of the witches set off to find the group and retrieve the map so they could find the gemstones.
Wow, I didn't realize that it would take me this long to make the chapter, but it's done. I hope you guys liked it, as well as that thing with Mildew near the end. There will be more action in some scene and a few more characters will join the group soon. Please review and I will update as soon as I can. See you next time.
