ANOTHER UPDATE GUYS!
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They didn't fly away from the island just yet because they had friends to meet up with just off the side beach of the village, and thankfully the storm clouds were able to hide them from any eyes as they managed to safely get to the beach, which unfortunately was empty.
Toothless couldn't find them? Heather thought to herself, but she didn't have time to actually grieve since her mind quickly turned its attention to Hiccup, who was pretty beaten up. "Oh gods Hiccup, I'm so sorry..." She whispered as she helped her brother sit down while she tried to find some bandages from her satchel but there was none found, all there was was a cream to help ease the pain of the bruises. "It's not much for healing, but at least it'll make some of the pain go away..."
"Don't worry I'm fine, and you shouldn't be sorry Heather," Hiccup reassured his sister, despite his beating, he still smiled. "You're safe from harm and that's alright, besides I been much worse than this so I'm practically fit as a fiddle." He forced out a real enough laugh to reassure his sister before he asked while pointing at Windshear. "Where did she come from?"
"She just came out of nowhere, and right on time but other than that I don't know how." Heather answered, then sat beside her brother as she continued, "Toothless was also with Windshear but I sent him out to-"
"OH THANK GODS YOU BOTH ARE SAFE!"
The twins both turned around to see Asger and Toothless run toward them despite the two carrying Shadowwing which brought their concern but the teen ran up to them and embraced them while stuttering apologies repeatedly. "I am so sorry I had no idea that this will happen! Please forgive me, I am so sorry I had no idea! I swear if I knew then I would have never brought you here and we'd all be safe and never had to go through that! I am so so so sorry!" Hiccup gently got himself out of the embrace and place his hand on Asger's shoulder to reassure the sailor. "Asger it's okay, you didn't know so of course we forgive you. Besides we're all safe so that's all that matters now." Now that Heather nodded with agreement while she petted Windshear, Toothless, and Shadowwing.
"OH YOU GUYS IF ONLY EVERYONE WAS AS KIND AS YOU TWO!" Asger whimpered with gratitude as he fell on his knees to show it.
"Alright, alright get a hold of yourself," Heather grinned but that soon turned into a frown when she looked at Shadowwing again. "What's wrong with your dragon? You and Toothless were both carrying him."
Asger to down to his knees in front of Shadowwing to lift his right front leg. "The village launched several boulders at us and one of them hit us so we crash landed in the middle of the forest but Shadowwing hurt his leg. I was about to carry him myself but then the nightfury over here jumped on me, nearly giving me a heart attack, from out of nowhere and dragged the both of us here."
"Oh you poor thing," Heather gasped, reaching forward for the dragon, completely ignoring how disappointed Asger since he didn't receive the affection he was hoping for from her but he knew his dragon needed more attention. "I'd never thought Berk would actually have the nerve to do this...Hiccup?" She got up and looked over at Hicup, because now she felt lost. "What now? Berk exiled us, you were nearly killed, and..." She stopped talking when Hiccup held his hand up and was silent until he walked forward where the sea met the sand before he gave her the answer he never thought he would have to resort to.
"We...We're going to have to really join Dagur..." He ignored the shocked face Heather gave him as he explained. "Heather, I know we don't want to join our enemy especially someone as deranged as Dagur but...After what happened in the village, how the villagers were unwilling to listen to us, how they were willing to kill us and their own...I don't know if we can ever convince them that we were on their side the whole time, or can ever trust them." Heather's shocked face shown vanished to agreement and understanding as he continued. "They nearly killed you Heather, but I nearly lost control of myself! If I stayed in Berk and I somehow lose it, everyone will get hurt! Look sis, it's not the fact that we're now exiles and hated by Berk but it's for their own safety from my stupid out of control anger! I was enjoying their pain! I didn't feel bad for them! I can't be near them Heather, so from the looks of things, it seems like the Berserker tribe is a more fitting home for me..."
"And me too Hiccup," Heather placed her hand on Hiccup's shoulders, as she stood next to him. "You pretty much summed up what I did back there... We're both out of control and you're right, it's for their own safety that we go and stay in Berserker island...Maybe its our destiny to be with our older brother and fight together with him."
"As much as I hate to say this... It may be true," Hiccup sighed, the winds of the storm were slowly getting weaker while Toothless cooed as he tried to make his rider feel better but after seeing what happened back there, he had to agree. "Well, Dagur may be mad at us but if we tell him everything and our final decision, he'll hopefully forgive us and we can live together as a real family...And here I thought for a moment that Berk has accepted me..." For some reason Asger felt sorry for the twins, he hated the fact the plan worked but he had to be strong for them now.
"Look I know you're going to be nervous now but I know that Dagur will forgive you,' He reassures the two teens, wrapping his arms around them. "Now we just need to find a way to get out of here."
"That won't be a problem," Hiccup smiled a little. "You'll just right with one of us and our dragons can carry Shadowwing two dragons should be able to carry one changewing." With that, the trio was getting ready to fly off until Toothless stumbled upon a sail from the wrecked boat so they were able to carry Shadowwing to lay on the cloth and that's when they mounted up.
Hiccup was making sure he saved some extra cloth in Toothless's satchel until he looked up to see Heather already mounted up but Asger instantly mounted up behind her, giving her a smile as his eyebrows lifted. "Toothless..." Hiccup whispered, gesturing his head to Asger and thankfully the nightfury clearly understood what the overprotective twin brother wanted so he ran towards Asger, lifted him off of Windshear then brought him back to where Hiccup was waiting. "You'll be riding with us Asger, I'm sure Toothless would like to get to know you more." Hiccup smiled quite suspiciously but not enough to scare the teen so the boys mounted on Toothless without protest.
With that, the dragons grabbed a side of the sail that held Shadowwing and off they flew, carrying a relaxing changewing in style as they went up to the grey clouds to hide from the eyes of Berk, making their way back to Berserker Island. However no one, but Toothless seemed to notice how sweaty Hiccup was getting despite the coldness from the storm that was soon about to end.
However unbeknownst to them, just on the other side of Berk, a familiar group of dragon riders were quickly approaching the village as fast as their dragons wings can flap and they two did not realize that the people they were looking for were flying away. There, nearly arriving to the village was Astrid, Snotlout, the twins, Fishlegs, Gobber, and Spitelout, with their dragons well Gobber riding with her and Spitelout with Snotlout.
Astrid saw that the village was thankfully in one piece but when she looked through the spy glass, she saw that the ground had green acid splattered in different directions and the whole villager in front of the great hall! "What in Thor's name..." She turned to the riders, who were giving her faces of confusion as she pointed forward. "We're going to the Great Hall, it seems everyone in the entire village is there!" Everyone nodded but just when they were about to land, villagers yelled in war mode which actually brought the shock in the riders!
"THOSE BERSERKER TWINS ARE BACK!"
"SHOOT 'EM DOWN!"
"DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY!"
They had to dodge the bolas, arrows, and boulders being shot at them until Astrid yelled at the top of her lungs so the village could hear her. "HEY QUIT IT! IT'S US FOR THOR SAKE!" Now the villagers took the time to see for themselves until they realized that it was Astrid and the gang so they deceased fire and were now cheering for their return the moment they made a safe landing!
"Um it is just me or did any of you hear them yell Berserker twins?" Tuffnut asked but his question wasn't answered since the teens parents came running forward to take their children out of the saddle while holding them or looking for injuries as they asked qeustions that increased their confusion while Gobber and Spitelout were surrounded by the villager warriors, everyone spitting out information or questions at once!
"How did you escape from the Berserkers!?"
"Where's Stoick?"
"It was awful, those two traitors, they were too strong!"
"They attack the village but there was no causalities!"
"Did the traitors do anything to you?"
"Did they hurt you?"
"The two traitors betrayed us all and are gone!"
Now Gobber has had enough of this so now it was his turn to yell. "SHUT UP! AND CAN SOMEONE, JUST ONE PERSON DO THE EXPLAINING AND QUESTIONING!" It didn't take long for everyone to be quiet and for Astrid's father to approach them and explain everything.
"My question is how you all escaped from the hands of the berserker twins? You see, after we learned that Hiccup discovered the truth about his real family, you all including the chief, Heather, and Hiccup have gone missing and we've heard from nearby fishermen say that they saw you all get kidnapped by Hiccup and Heather themselves, that they are in league with their brother Dagur-"
"Wait, you actually thought Hiccup and Heather kidnapped us and intentionally joined Dagur!?" Astrid screamed at her father in disbelief, and before letting her father say yes and question her, she carried on, knowing her father's response to well. "HOW COULD YOU GUYS BEEN SO BLIND!? Dad, Hiccup and Heather never kidnapped us, they only knocked us all unconscious, leaving us in the forest to prevent us from stopping them from carrying on their plan! But when we woke up, we decided to go after them so we could help them! But then the storm came so Stoick sent us back while he went off to find them himself!"
"What are you talking about Astrid!?"
"Stoick saw Hiccup turn back before leaving with Dagur, crying and saying 'I'm so sorry' so we knew that he and Heather were acting this alliance out so they could get close to Dagur and recapture him! They were loyal to Berk the whole time! Dad...WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED HERE!" Her father took a deep breath and then released it, now realizing the grieve mistake that has been done but he explained, knowing that his daughter's reaction would be full of fury.
" Well, then about late last night we've heard news that they were coming to get their dragons but we then got ready to ambush them and when we did we managed to capture Heather. She refused to give the locations, motive, and your whereabouts so we were going to execute her as a traitor but no sooner did a caped teen with another teen his age riding on a changewing came in the village. The dragon was distracting everyone as the masked one was attacking warriors to free Heather. Once he got to her, those two fought against half the village, winning at the process but when one of the warriors removed the cape we discovered that it was Hiccup who led this attack! Just as we were about to name their punishment, Mildew came to their defense which was very suspicious for him so we marked him as a traitor. We were going to execute both the old man and Heather and lock Hiccup up until we could exile him but the lad went berserk and attacked everyone in his way but then admitted to all of us that he's the real traitor who forced his sister and Mildew to be in his side so we freed the girl and the old man, having guards escort them away. Me, along with other clan leaders decided to beat Hiccup up so bad for being a traitor before we execute him but Heather came back with her dragon then rescued Hiccup and they both flew off after we declared them to be traitors and that they were exiled..."
Now the group gasped with anger and disbelief with their own village's actions but before Astrid could say anything, Spitelout, out of all people, exclaimed with fury for these actions,"OH FOR THOR'S SAKE HOFFERSON YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MILDEW! WHAT POSSESSED YOU ALL TO ACCUSE AND THEM HARM HICCUP AND HIS SISTER LIKE THAT! AND THEN TURN AGAINST YOUR OWN! OH THANK THOR NO ONE GOT KILLED!"
"Actually..." Hofferson squeaked, now earning everybody's attention. "When Hiccup was in his berserker rampage to save Heather and Mildew, I had our archers shoot arrows at him, one of the arrows causing a deep cut on his arm..."
"What does that have anything to do with-Wait," Gobber slapped his hand on his forehead as he approached the Head of the Hoffersons, fear rising in the blacksmith's body faster than a speed stinger. "What kind of arrow did you use?"
He was silent but he eventually answered with regret. "The black arrow...We were about to use those kind of arrows to execute Heather until the changewing interfered and the whole situation... I knew it was cruel but Hiccup was out of control, and I thought it was for the best..."
"Gobber, what's the big deal about the kind of arrow?" Snotlout asked, afraid of the answer along with the rest of the teens.
"Black arrows are used to execute traitors from other tribes or allies, and the type do matter Snotlout..." Gobber gulped before he finished while his eyes were wide with despair. "Because we coat the blade of the black arrows with a deadly poison that only the highest elder and current chief know about while the rest of us say that there is no cure... To kill a person, it takes about two days, and if the person is lucky enough to get the cure, it takes two days as well to heal...And Hiccup was shot by one and he doesn't know the cure, Berserker island doesn't know, and the storm is preventing us to actually get there in time..."
Now everybody in the entire village were now flooded with guilt while Astrid was shaking, knowing that she was too late... I'm too late, Hiccup got shot and now...He's..He's gonna...It's all their fault, it's my dad's fault! No...It's our fault...Now Hiccup is... "What have you done...What have we done.." She whispered, letting a tear flow down from her eyes, allowing her father to embrace her as he repeatedly apologized to her for being so foolish.
The rest of Berk were now in tears, knowing that Hiccup will soon be no longer with the world but Snotlout, with tears rapidly coming down his face cried out, "IT'S ALL OUR FAULT! WE ALL DID THIS TO HIM! LOOK WHAT WE'VE DONE, WE DROVE HICCUP OUT OF HIS OWN HOME, THE HOME WHERE HE DIDN'T ORIGINATE FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE AND YET HE WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR US! AND LOOK HOW WE REPAY HIM, JUST FOR BELONGING TO ANOTHER TRIBE, WE ALL SENT HIM TO HIS DEATH, WE CAUSED HIM TO HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO JOIN DAGUR AND TO HATE US FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES! THIS WAS HIS HOME BUT WE DROVE HIM OUT AND NOW WE ARE TOO LATE TO MAKE AMENDS! WHAT HAVE WE DONE!?"
"WE NOW LOST THE PERSON WHO PUT HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR A TRIBE WHO SEPARATED HIM FROM HIS FAMILY! LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE DONE!"
Oh my berk knows Hiccup was poisoned but does he and the rest of berserk know?
Find out next time to see if he lives