Chapter 14: He's not dangerous.
Kristan never was able to have this much sleep before in her life. She was used to doing the chores and fight training. Just basically working her butt off all the time. Now here she is sleeping in quite later than usual.
She wakes up in the cove to find Toothless pacing around freaking out. Worried most likely about Hiccup. She goes over to him and starts scratching behind his ears.
" Hey it's ok. Hiccup can take care himself. So we shouldn't have to worry. Right?" She tells the dragon. But the dragon is still kinda in distress.
Kristan has to admit. She's also worried about her cousin too and she is not comfortable with what he is about to do today.
" Will he be able to convince them?" She asked herself out of worry. " Will Stoick understand? Will he even make it out alive?"
The dragon gestures her towards the way out of the cove.
" I can't. He told me to keep an eye on you." She told him.
But the dragon keeps insisting. He's worried about Hiccup.
" Even if I want to. I can't go over there without being spotted." She gesture to her torn up clothes. It would most definitely be the dead give away to her identity. She can't be spotted by her family.
But then she gets an idea. It's risky. But it can work. All she has to is hope that her father is not in the house.
She looks at the dragon. " I'll go. But only for a few minutes. I promise that I'll be back here within the hour. Just stay here."
The dragon snuffs in response.
" Ok. I'll take that as a yes." She said looking at the dragon one last time before she climbs out of the cove to head to the village.
It wasn't long before she makes it to the edge of the forest and gets an eye on her house. Luckily she sees her father leave the place towards the direction of the arena.
" Ok." She says to herself in relief. " He's gone."
She sneaks over to her house and and goes inside. She immediately runs over to her room and digs into her bag on her bed to get what she need. Her Opal clothes and her bow and arrows. More like rags really. She tosses them on and takes one last look in the mirror before she runs out the door to get over to the arena to see it covered with people.
It was crowded immensely. She can see barely her father and her uncle on the stage above the arena from all of those tall vikings in front of her. But she can obviously tell that her father is angry over her disappearance.
A bug rugged guy next to her looks down at her and frowns. She squeaks in response by his intimidation.
" I never seen you before." He states out of suspicion.
" I don't think we have." She said hoping she would get out of this.
But he moves his hand towards his sword and looks like he is about to draw it.
" Wait. I…. I can explain…" She said nervously as he was about to unsheath his sword. That's when she heard a voice.
" She's with me!" A voice called out. Of all people that was going to be her savior. It had to be the one who was most annoying and by the name of Snotlout.
" She's yours?" The guy raises his eyebrow at the him.
" Yeah." He said over confidently. " She's my girlfriend from Shivering Shores. She came here to visit me."
Kristan knew she needed to take this opportunity while she has it in her reach.
" Y-yeah! I'm…. his girlfriend." She says it with a sour taste her mouth. Her and Snotlout. Really?
The man frowns and said this, " Be lucky that you're not a spy from the bersekers. Otherwise I wouldn't be this generous to you. Stay out trouble."
" I will. Thank you." She gulped as he walk away from. Normally she would be able to pound this guy down without a problem. But the way she's dressed made it very difficult to be able to do so. It's not like she can do this and not be thrown in prison for it.
" Come on darling. You deserve the front row seat." He tries to smooth talk her. But he's doing a bad job at it.
But she still has to thank him in a way for saving her butt back there.
" Oh! ok." She giggles but she wants to barf on him instead.
Snotlout leads her to the rest of the gang. Every single one of them mouth's drops.
" Whoa! Snotlout. Where did you get that chick!?" Tuffnut said in shock
" I saved her from being decapitated by Bloodsheath." He smirks and his arm around her shoulder like she's some sort of prize.
" Aw man. I wish I could save a chick from Bloodsheath." Tuffnut said in despair.
" Be careful Snotlout. She's a redhead. She can lose temper with you." Ruffnut laughs. Kristan feels that she actually might be right about something.
" Who are you by the way?" Fishlegs asked her.
" I'm Opal." Kristan said her fake name before whispering. " And to be quite honest, I don't really want to have anything to do with Snotlout."
" Welcome to the club." He said offering his hand and she shakes it before she hears her Uncle speak.
" Well. I can show my face in public again." She hears him as everyone cheers and raises his hand to silence them. " If someone would tell me that in a few short weeks, that Hiccup would going from a…. hiccup. To being placed first in dragon training, I would have tied him to a mas and ship him off for feeding god mad!"
Everyone cheers but Kristan as she becomes more uncomfortable with everything this village stands for.
" Now no one is more surprised or more proud than I am. Today my boy becomes a viking. Today he becomes one of us!"
Kristan tunes out her hearing as she looks down to see her cousin being comforted by Astrid. Oh. She hopes the plan will work.
The gates open to let Hiccup in and close behind him. She watches slowly makes his way over to the weapon board and pick out his weapon. A shield and knife. Since it's the only thing he can lift.
He calls out, " I'm ready." to the crowd.
The only sound that is ever made is the winding of the gates opening before it bursts into flames.
The dragon was a Monstrous Nightmare and a very aggressive one at that. He climbs around the arena and shooting fire at the crowd before making his way towards Hiccup.
" Come on! Hiccup! Give it to him!" Someone called.
" You can do it Hiccup." She says in her mind.
Everyone watches as he drops the shield and knife in question marks to what he is doing. This was not the way Vikings would do it. They had no idea what he was about to do next.
Kristan along with everyone else witnessed him take off his helmet and said, " I'm not one of them." Before throwing it to the ground.
All she can think was, " He did it. He actually did it!"
Everyone could her uncle say, " Stop the fight."
" No!" Hiccup said stubbornly. " I need you all to see this. They are not who we think they are. We don't have to kill him."
Hiccup reaches his hand out to the dragon to try to calm him down and it was working! The dragon was starting to see him as not a threat.
" That's it. That's right Hiccup. You show them." She encourages him in her head.
" I said, 'STOP THE FIGHT!' She hears her uncle shout before smashing her hammer against the railing.
The dragon snaps and almost takes her cousin's arm off and shoots fire at him. He screams for the whole world to hear as he tries to get away from the nightmare.
" Hiccup." Both she and Astrid shouted.
Kristan pushes through the distracted gang to the get to the arena doors. It was there that she ran into her uncle.
But he was more focussed on his son than her and says nothing as he throws up the two gates with such ease to get him and now Astrid out of the arena. Both of whom are trying to get away from the dragon.
Just when things couldn't get any worse. She hears a call. The call of a Night Fury.
" No. Toothless!" She screams. But it was too late. He jumps over some Vikings and blasts his way into the arena.
It all becomes smoke to her as she hears the struggle between the two dragons. Everyone gasps as they all lay eyes on him for the first time on a Night Fury.
Toothless manages to fight off the Nightmare and the dragon backs away.
More people are getting into the arena to stop Toothless. Both Hiccup and Kristan run to the dragon's defense.
" Kristan get on Toothless and get out of her!" He tells her.
" No! I'm not leaving you here! It's you that's going to get punished!" She shouts.
" Just go!" He tells her. But it's too late. Toothless runs from them and pins down Stoick out of seeing him as a threat.
" Toothless! No!" Hiccup screams.
But the dragon ignores him and is about to blast him.
" NOOOOOOOOOO!" He shouts sense into him.
The dragon calms down and gets off of him. That's when everything goes to hell.
Many vikings punched the dragon and pinned him down as both cousins could only watch in horror.
" No! Please! Don't hurt him!" He begs.
Stoick determines the dragon's faith. " Put him with the others."
The vikings push and shove the dragon into a cage. Kristan and Hiccup
During which Kristan sees something on the corner of her eye. Her father with a loaded crossbow aimed at Hiccup and pulls the trigger.
" NO!" She screams as she loads up her bow with an arrow and fires it. The arrow spins in the air as it destroys the arrow her father and still travels with enough velocity to graze his arm.
" AH!" He screams for everyone to hear. " Get her!" He shouts at a couple of vikings.
Two viking men dive at Kristan.
" Let me go! Let me go!" She demands. But it falls on deaf ears as they bound her wrists with spiked rope tightly and one of them drags them.
" Please! Don't hurt her!" Hiccup begs but he gets dragged by the arm by his angry father towards the Great Hall.
She struggles against the viking who is dragging her, but she isn't strong as hi. It wasn't long before her binds were taken off and she was easily thrown into a prison cell for her to rot in.
She rubs her rope burned wrists. They all seem the more familiar to her when she was with her father.
" I'm sorry Hiccup." She said shakingly as she looks up at the ceiling. " I didn't protect him when I should."
Sorry about the lack of update. I was busy trying to finish my Mask Of White story. But now I can put this on first priority. Hopefully I can finish this by Halloween. That's my goal.
If you are interested in Secret Of NIMH, I'm actually planning an au of it. I'm only going to release kind of a test chapter today to see if this is worth writing. So please check it out.
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