Chapter 14 everyone, sorry for not updating soon, non internet family fun activities. Anyway, enjoy, hopefully ;)
"Can't you speed up a little faster?" "And you Eret, speed up the navigation!" Astrid shouted impatiently while they were flying through a storm, while Eret was freezing. After an hour of searching before the storm hit, they went down near the sea to spot any traces of Hiccup, so far there's nothing.
"Astrid we're trying our best to speed up but this storm is very strong and your navigator is freezing into an ice cube." Gobber explained, while trying to stop specks of ice from hitting his ice.
"Let's go up in those clouds again, maybe we can find him up there," Stoick suggested, leading everyone above the storm clouds, well the twins stick their heads down from the clouds to see.
"Ruffnut, Tuffnut pull your heads back up here!"
"Yeah sure Snotlout, but only if we can see up there." Said teen felt like slapping Tuffnut to next week since he became very annoyed with his response. "MUTTONHEAD!"
"Snotlout!"
"What Astrid?!" "He is!"
Astrid shushed him again as she looked straight at the horizon along with Stoick, with sharp eyes, as if she seen something in the clouds up ahead.
"Something's hiding over there..."
Ow my body is killing me...What did I change into anyway? Wait why am I not in the water where I crushed into? What happened?
Hiccup was struggling to open his eyes but with the pain on his shoulder and back, his eyes stayed shut.
He felt himself laid on something but he couldn't quite put his finger on that...Hiccup was unconscious when he fell but now, he has no idea where he is right now...Before Hiccup could force himself to get up, he heard some foot steps, even if he couldn't wake up at the moment.
The footsteps stopped walking, probably in front of him as he felt a pair of hands tend to his wounds. He felt like forcing himself up until he heard the stranger talk to him in a soothing voice.
"It's okay, those trappers won't hurt you again.." "Thank goodness those sea dragons found you and quickly brough you here.." "Let me heal your shoulder, then your back...For a night fury, you're pretty strong to withstand the pain."
So I turned into a night fury huh? This person, she makes me feel safe somehow, as if i can trust her...In that case, I won't turn back to what I am now, I don't know if she's a friend or foe..
"There, those wounds would heal perfectly now..So take it easy big guy." Hiccup then heard the stranger finish up bandaging his wounds before getting up and placing a wet cloth over his scaly head. "So you won't have such a high fever..." Before Hiccup could try to get a better look of the stranger, he heard distant growls and hisses from other dragons.
"Intruders?" "Near the border? Well then it looks like I'll have to take care of them.." "I'll be back to check on you, maybe you'll be awake once I return.."
Hiccup managed to slightly open his eyes, but not very noticeable, and see a hazy blur of the stranger as she went out the door.
"DUCK!"
"Duck!? Where, can we roast it?" Tuffnut exclaimed with excitement, earning a punch in the eye from Astrid.
Suddenly, a whole flock of wild dragons surrounded the group, blocking their way from seeing anything.
"What are those things?"
"They're dragons Ruffnut!"
"I know they're dragons, but what kind you mutton head!?"
"I don't know!?"
Everyone stared at Fishlegs for a short distrubing moment before he quickly explained himself, "I-I mean, they're new species of dragons that I've never seen."
"Oh no, not that dragon rider again," Eret complained, "Out of all times, this dragon rider decided to strike now!"
"Dragon rider?" "You mean there's more?"
"Nope, the one I'm talking about was the only one," Eret explained to Astrid, then mumbled to himself, "Until you mutton heads showed up.."
"I have no problem dropping you to the water."
"D-did I say mutton head, no...I said uh...smart heads."
Ignoring Eret, Astrid had Stormfly blast some fire at some of the wild dragons along with everyone else until another dragon flew up from the clouds, with someone riding on top of it.
"It's a Stormcutter!"
"Oh so that dragon is the one you know here!"
"Shut up Tuffnut...Uh chief are you okay?"
Stoick seemed like he didn't hear Ruffnut at all, he was lost in his thoughts and memory..Stormcutter? Wait, that's the same dragon who took Valka away on that night..
Flashback
Another vicious dragon raid back at Berk, everyone was attacking and killing dragons...Well almost everyone..Stoick heard his wife shout at one of the warriors to not to kill or hurt any of the dragons. "Oh Val.."
He continued to fight the dragons until he noticed Valka running inside their house, where a dragon, a stormcutter to be exact, just broke in through the roof. At first he didn't know what had Valka go in until he suddenly realized which spot of the house the dragon ventured to...
"Hiccup!"
He ran as fast as he could towards his home, and soon burst in seeing their baby boy Hiccup in his cradle crying while the dragon was staring at Valka.
In an instant, he threw his ax in front of the dragon, infuriating it as the dragon blasted fire towards him as he ran to get Hiccup, since the flames were getting near the child. Stoick soon saw that the dragon was facing his wife yet again as he quickly went to get his son out of harms way.
"Hold on!" Luckily, he got to Hiccup on time, holding the weeping infant as he turned to charge at the dragon but he then heard his wife shout out for him.
"Stoick!"
Turning around to charge, he saw his wife getting taken away by the stormcutter along with the other dragons who were retreating.
"VALKA!"
He tried to rush to her, by she was alreay far off, carried away by that dragon, hearing her final shouts. "Stoick!"
"Valka..." Never in his life he felt such sadness, heart broken, and grief; his son's cries soon turned to small whimpering. Now it was up to him, Stoick the Vast, to raise and watch over Hiccup.
End of Flashback
Coming back to reality, Stoick now focused on trying to get put of this dragon blocking situation and finding his son.
"Who are you?!"
Ignoring Snotlout, the stranger pointed a staff at the group and before they knew it...They felt other dragons snatch them from the saddles!
"What the?!" "HEY LET US GO, WE'RE NOT ENEMIES!"
"Yeah, we're not!" "Well maybe Eret here, but not us!"
Astrid felt like punching the twins again but she instead tried to get the dragon to let go of her. "STORMFLY, TOOTHLESS!" "HOOKFANG, MEATLUG, GRUMP, SKULLCRUSHER, BARF, BELCH, WE COULD USE SOME HELP OVER HERE!"
Said dragons were flying after them, nearly got each of their rider until larger dragons grabbed ahold of all seven dragon, well eight if you separately count Barf and Belch. Anway, each dragon was grabbed and taken off ahead while they kept roaring in protest.
Dragon POV
"HEY LET GO OF ME, I HAVE TO FIND SOMEONE FAST BEFORE THIS DRAGO PERSON CATCHES HIM FIRST!" Toothless shouted at the dragon who held on to him tightly as he growled,
"Drago, so you know 'em...Better protect yourself then, you're a night fury after all."
"BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WORRY ABOUT MYSELF! I HAVE TO FIND MY FRIEND, HE'S IN SERIOUS DANGER!"
"What, he's better than you?"
"Much worse my friend, he's something that'll haunt your dreams..." Stormfly explained.
"Then you seven, or eight must inform the alpha about what you are claiming.."
End of Dragon POV
Stoick struggled as well to get out of the dragon's grip but failed as he began to shout at the mysterious dragon rider. "Let us go!" "Now, you don't understand...I have to find my son!"
He then heard the rider muffle something but he couldn't hear the exact words because of the mask.
Soon they were all led to a dark cave while Stoick, Astrid, and Toothless still struggled to get out of the wild dragons claws. Then everybody crash landed on the ground while the masked dragon rider disappeared somewhere.
They could have made a run for it, they were yet again surrounded by even more dragons than before!
"Show yourself dragon rider!" Gobber bellowed, until he threw a batch of dragon nip he had in a satchel at every dragon, knocking them out. "Come on you sea slugs, the rider might be back, and he might be a foe!" "Follow me!"
Everyone quickly followed, well Ruffnut hauled Eret to follow her, while Gobber looked through every hole he can fit in through...Until he paused.
End of chapter see ya ;)
Can any of you guess what Gobber found?