A Dragon's Breath
Chapter 14: A Faithful Pet
I AM BACK! As usual I am to lazy and dead minded to think of anything to say, so I will just give you some insight into my mind. I have been literally reading every bit of ZAGR I can find on the Invader Zim archive on fanfiction and frankly I am pleased and annoyed. There is so much potential there, but like two thirds of the good fics are unfinished and are on hold and the other third are either flat out dead or on hold. I am sickened, so you can expect a ZIM fic sooner or later, maybe. And I was watching Batman Begins (the movie) and im sure you all know what that means....if not then I have failed as a parent.....i mean author....
NOTE: oh and TG, if I wasn't so determined to give you guys a SURPRISE, then I might just beat the living hek out of you with my 8 guage for that last score, that Wind Fury comment really REALLY PO'd me! And to get back at you, I shall...KILL OFF A CHARACTER! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own HTTYD or it's Characters
Hiccup groaned lowly as he managed to rouse himself from the pain hazed sleep he had been forced into. He felt the tight, itchy, rope digging into his skin on his ankles and hands as he was held to the pole and he heard dirt crunching under steel tipped shoes and he heard the sounds of shovels breaking up the ground around them, he vaguely wondered were he was and what was going on, and then the memories floated back to him, and by floated, it was like a ram slamming into a stone wall.
His eyes shot open and he gasped as he took in his surroundings, Hiccup felt relief course through him in a powerful current. Astrid was tied to the pole next to him and both Snoutlout and Ruffnut were tied to the ones on his left, but he seemed to be the only one awake. The air also tasted stale, he noted, the stench of death and the somewhat sweet salty air of the sea was everywhere, cooked flesh and rotting bodies seemed to be around them since the awful smell was strong in the misty air. He heard noises outside of the tent and closed his eyes instinctively, and it was good that he did.
Suddenly the tent flaps opened up and in walked five men, four of the men were clad in a odd armor, not the mail of the soldiers, but plates of steel, and the last one was clad in plates as well, but his helm rested in his hands and his face looked stern and bitter, a sword hung at his side and fire burned in his eyes as he pointed at them and spoke in Estonian, or some language, and then the four men walked forward and began untying the prisoners.
The knights picked up the battered, unconscious, bodies and hoisted them on their shoulders, carrying them off, Hiccup himself was among them. He gritted his teeth to keep silent, trying to pretend to be asleep as well, for fear of how they would react.
He still, of course, took a quick peek around when he got the chance. From what he could see, they were walking down the beach from, the ruined camp that had been set up on the grassy plain near the shores was being torn down and he also saw in the misty air that their old campsite was gone, but he couldn't tell if it was destroyed in the battle or after, or even before it had happened.
He snuck a peak in front of him and was disappointment to find that the knights in front of him blocked his view, but he could still see the sea a bit, though not a large amount.
The sea was mostly covered in a white fog and the air was growing more damp as they left the dying flames of the slowly being dismantled camp, the troops that were left were either burying the dead or helping with the camp. The horses, something Hiccup had rarely ever seen in his short life, were tramping around the area with their riders in their mud caked and blood speckled armor, on the lookout for another dragon attack.
Hiccup also saw the slain dragons all over the place, some of them were still fighting and the soldiers ignored them to their cruel fate. Seeing that almost made him want to break free and help the dragons, or at the very least end their pain..almost.
He heard a soft groan and found another of the vikings waking up, but he didn't know which it was. However he had little time to ponder on this, for soon Hiccup was tossed into the air like a sack of fish and landed on the hard wooden deck of a boat with a thud and audible yelp.
Glancing up as he tried to get to his knees, he found the other three vikings with him were groaning and doing likewise. He then saw metal boots land on the deck as well, a dark cape following them as the soldier moved over to the center of the boat, standing before the four vikings that were now on their knees, a knight behind each of them.
Hiccup recognized him as the man from the prisoner tent and also the man from the night before. His dark hair now mud caked a bit, just like the soldiers he had seen armor. He opened his mouth and spoke.
"Nii et teil on kuulus ratturid ja Berj Ainkuüksi lastele!" he said, his voice mixed with amusement and curiosity and a hint of surprise. When the four teens stared at him, now mostly awake, blankly, he seemed to think for a moment. Then he spoke again. "You. You are from berk?" he said in rusty English (they spoke English in the film ok!).
The four stayed quiet until he made a gesture and Ruffnut was whacked in the head with the handle from one of their blades. The teenage viking cried out in pain and fell onto the deck, no longer being held down by the arm of the knight guarding her, and held her head.
Hiccup and Astrid were already snarling up at him, and then were a bit confused, through the cloud of anger that was covering their minds, to find Snoutlout cursing in...Dutch? And fighting the guard brutally, trying to get at the man before him with a fire in his eyes.
The man simply made the gesture again and Snoutlout was hit in the head as well, this time with a steel toe boot. The normally buff and buffoonish warrior crashed into the deck with a pained yelp and glared at the man as he ignored the pain in his head, not giving the man the satisfaction of seeing him acknowledge the pain.
"Now" he said, his rusty English was plain, though the Estonian accent remained. "You are the riders of Berk?" he asked with a odd light in his eyes.
Astrid spat at him. "What's it to you?" she growled out.
The man smiled at her, but Hiccup doubted the man was going to be friendly with them. "My people would love that I have captured four great warriors such as yourselves...even if you height and age are much lower then your fame" he said, slightly mocking as he studied them. "Of course..some of you have aged more..in....certain areas" he muttered rather pointedly, looking at Astrid, but his eyes weren't really locked on with her own ice blue eyes, they weren't even on her face.
Astrid grew bright red, though from rage or embarrassment, Hiccup wasn't entirely sure. He heard a few of the knights chuckling and as the man moved closer, another knight moved near Astrid and secured her other arm.
"So tell me" he said as he moved closer to the girl. "Where are the rest of your little friends" his rusty English didn't damper what he planned to do. And Hiccup and Snoutlout watched in frozen shock as Astrid stared at him in fear. Her strong facade breaking bit by bit as he approached.
"With the legendary Wind Fury and the Riders of Berk...i will regain what I lost and be a LEGEND!" he said, a bit insanely, as if he had said this to himself more then a few times.
He at last closed on Astrid and studied her. "Such a fine little thing, I will enjo-" he was stopped from his rant when a loud, blood curdling roar was heard, before anyone could react, a blue and purple fire ball appeared out of nowhere and slammed into the side of the boat, blowing apart a good chunk of it and sending everyone to the ground as the boat rocked all over.
Astrid wasted no time and jumped onto the man and started beating him in the face while Snoutlout picked up a fallen sword and yelled before charging the knights and clumsily using the blade against them. Ruffnut had also grabbed a fallen weapon and ran to join him in the melee.
Hiccup however, he was running to help Astrid. He watched in a bit of pride as she beat the living crap out of the man, but due to his armor, it was rather hard to do. He glanced behind him and found more soldiers and horses running or galloping towards their boat, only for two more fire balls to crash into the ground and send the horses into a frenzy while the soldiers ran for cover.
The servants themselves were all hiding were they could find cover as the soldiers tried to get at the eels left in baskets near the boats, but both they and the nets were out of their grasps for another fire ball hit near them and incinerated a man, armor and all, into a pile of smoking skeleton bits.
Forcing himself from the scene, Hiccup found Astrid fighting for her life as the man had stood up and was trying to knock her to the ground. He kicked her in the side, but she stood her ground, he managed to punch her in the face, but she continued to stand.
Meanwhile Hiccup managed to grab a blade and ran at the man, who just had finally knocked Astrid to the ground by punching her stomach and then slamming her into the mast.
Just as he was about to assault the barely conscious girl, a flash of steel caught his eye. In a flash his gantleted hand had secured the blade at his side and whipped it around to clash against the average sized teen before him. "You have gutsy viking" he spat this out as if it were a curse. "But that shall not save you!" he then swung his weapon with the air of a practiced swordsmen and forced the boy back and back, and back.
Hiccup had always been a bit lucky, in the worst of situations. He had tamed a Night Fury, he had slain the Red death, he had survived said encounter, Astrid had kept his secret and now this odd bit of luck came to him once again as he somehow managed to stay alive as the Estonian grew more and more frustrated the more he failed to hit the fast moving scrawny brat.
Another explosion went off and both turned to see a black figure streak across the misty air around them and then a purple and blue fire ball was spat from it's mouth and hit a boat, blowing up the middle part. The boat then sank into the muddy sand of the shore as both ends now tilted towards the sky a bit, however the boat didn't go far under the water due to the shore, but it was now out of commission.
Seeing one of his boats blow apart and start to catch fire, the Estonian started to renew his attacks, trying to get a blow on the boy who was stumbling and bumbling his way around the ship. At last he swiped hard and sent the blade spinning into the air, where it then hit the water with a loud plop.
Hiccup gulped and the man grinned. "Time to end this welp!" he cried and charged at the boy, blade raised high.
Like it?
I think it turned out okish, two thousand words. My normal aim. This fic is almost over, two chaps left tops. But there will always be SIDE STORIES. So if you want em, start chanting their names!
TRANSLATIONS! Oh how I missed them.
Nii et teil on kuulus ratturid ja Berj Ainkuüksi lastele!, is Estonian for, So you are the famed riders of Berk? Mere Children!
And now on to INFORMATION!
INFORMATION
SIDE PLOTS | OTHER ACCOUNTS /SITES | FEEBACK (wanted please!) | SIDE PROJECTS
-Cave In (in progress) | YOUTUBE (NOT made yet) | YOUTUBE? Y/N?
-Interrogation (NOT started) | BLOG (NOT made yet) | BLOG? Y/N?
-Feelings and Thoughts (NOT started) | Q/A Forum on FF? (fanfiction) | Q/A? Y/N?
FICS OF INTREST (ones I have that you may like)
-Avatar: The Overlord, After a terrible mistake is made, Aang and the others must fight off a powerful Zuko and save the world from Zuko's new Empire.
-Shadow's Dawn, can one ninja do what her master couldn't? Can she bring him back to the light, despite having been trapped in darkness for so long?
-Winter's Breath, When two mysterious figures enter China, a war shall rage and a old foe shall help the five and Po deal with a much more powerful threat
FICS I MIGHT WRITE (this is part of FEEBACK, this means SEND FEEBACK!)
-The Tell's, Serina and her brothers had moved to Spring Valley for a fresh start, and oh they will get one.
-The Way of The Sith, for more then a thousand years the Sith have trailed off the path set down by their ancestors, Luke and Mara will find that path, and on it they will find more then they bargained for...a lot more
moving on...PROGRESS!
PROGRESS: Fic is at 80% completion.
And my favorite part of the day, REVIEW REPLIES!
Ruffnut and Tuffnut Thorston: lol, I like that name, I might just change it...or something like that. Lol, swordless....i will remember that :)
Reborn: thats fine, im supposed to be studying for a test too. Im gonna fail XD! And I think this thing is heading into the actiony area..ah well. So did the movie.
Observer: That is fine my friend, school and work are time consumers. Trust me.
Ducklin: There, now you can see what's next!
Halogirl810: yes..but this isn't one. Maybe I should change the genre?
Moonshine: I have given you more Snoutlout, but because of TG I might just KILL, oh wait... I WILL KILL a character. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thehiccuper: BISCUTS!!!
TG: YOU. YOU SHALL DIE! * fires 8 guage * DIE DIE DIE!!!!!! * blows up computer *
Luciee.x: you know...now that I am reading your post... I think this chapter might just confuse you more....
Rebel: I am continuing!
Took-Baggins: yes...i am still upset about that...but I hope the INFORMATION helps you out!
KT2209: thanks!
Sorry if your Review was missed, I am out of time and need to get to work on some stuff, so just salvivate over the fact that the fic is almost done and I will begin working on Side projects...oh and DARK ORDER 2 is almost out!
Here is my favorite time of the day, er second, second favorite time of the day.
RANT TIME:
REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!!!!! DIE TG!!!!! * Fires Shot gun* DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C U NEXT TiME!