Hey, guy's I hope you like the update! I really had a hard time putting it into my schedule (you not only I'm y working on writing, my many projects, doing basketball and going to school, I now also work so yeah! fun times at sport expert!) But I managed and here I am anyway enough talking.
have fun
3rd persons pov
Sirenya rushed forwards ready to taste blood.
Hiccup knew she would do that, she alway's had that improbability in her action. Sure she alway's tried to keep in mind the outcome of her decisions but in a way she still was reckless, like in this situation...
Oh well, I guess the plan had changed...
You see he knew charging the enemy would provoke 2 things, one leaving an opening in our defence, something he didn't mind too much and could take care of, but it would also make the berkians want to fight... And that well he couldn't really cope with. Sure he didn't like them but seeing the upcoming massacre, he couldn't help but feel pity, stupid emotions...
So that what made him raise his sword to stop Snotlought from charging. The bullies looked at him with a questioning glare. "stay here and try not to die" he said in an emotionless calm.
"but what about_," Tuff said pointing to Hiccup's friend who had just jumped like a grasshopper to dodge an incoming blade. The rider looked at the girl quickly analysing her movements, she seemed to be fine, attacking wildly but still keeping up a nice discreet defensive. He briskly smirked at the view of Sirenya's maniacal smile. Yeah, she had everything under control...
"She is fine," He said returning to his cold unfriendly self. He pierced a soldier's abdomen, stopping him from attacking the group under his protection. "SO like I was saying, you stay here and try not to die, I'll get our escape 'arrangements' while Sirenya distracts our hosts" he left the troop behind and slowly made his way to the middle of the ship.
From behind he heard Tuffnut exclaim like he had just solved the world's greatest problem. "so that's what all the knocking from earlier was, you were finding an escape route!" Hiccup was actually impressed, he had paid attention to details... He started not to hate the guy as much as the others at least he had somewhat of a brain. The thought of what he had just mentally said struck him. Did he just say Tuff had more brains than the rest of the ex-teens? The fact actually made him stop in his progression, what had the world come to?
He needed to concentrate, just to prove his point, he slashed a ring of enemies and ran for a trap on the middle deck...
(so the trap looks like this, do you guys see the squared spot on the floors? Well, that's what I'm talking about. just thought you should know :) )
just thought you should know :) )
In the meantime, the gang tried to stay afloat the submerging number of enemies. They all wondered the same thing. How in Hel was Hiccup still alive with these kinds of enemies and by Odin, how was there a smile plastered on Sirenya's face as she cut through the mass of bulky men like she was simply having the time of her life?
Astrid mentally smirked, she guessed Hiccup had warned them not to follow him in the berkian forest, but like always we didn't listen. Funny how that always lead to unpleasant experiences...
The group continued fighting like no tomorrow and somehow managed to stay alive. Sirenya lent a helping hand, or should I say sword, from time to time. But they were all tiring fast, even the silent warrior, and the enemies just seemed to keep coming to no end. They were all hoping for Hiccup to hurry.
Talking about the amazing dragon trainer, he had finally managed to slip in the dragon cages unnoticed. As he made his way to the dragon pens he noticed there were less and fewer cries of Vikings dying meaning his friend and obligated allies were tiring out, he had to hurry. Hiccup turned to look at a couple of frighten dragons...
"Hello do you know who I am?" he asked, they slowly bowed "I'll take that as a yes..." He approached hand raised "I'll get you out of here" He took out his sword and got to work...
Sirenya's POV
By Cashdofame's realm, where the Hell was that blasted Hiccup! (for someone who doesn't speak much she sure knows a lot of swearing...) The Viking men kept coming like my blades just didn't have any effects on them anymore... And the individuals dragon boy had stuck to me really were just a waste of space, I was actually contemplating the idea of tossing one at a group of warriors to see if they would topple like bowling pins... I wonder...
"Sirenya!" A voice snapped me out of my thoughts, I looked passed a struggling space-waster and saw Astrid fighting with one hand and holding up Snotlought (I think) with the other. I sighed, could these barbarians not die on my watch? Really it would be very unnerving...
I slithered around a group of fighting soldiers and stood protectively in front of the two 'allies' of Hic.
As I was about to yell at the others to get behind me, one of the trap doors burst open revealing Hiccup on the weirdest beast I ever saw... It was of a pale brown and very round in some way, it had some kind of carapace where spikes erupted, it also had horns and was drooling a lot, it was almost like a child had drawn it and it had come to life, the whole thing was just awkward... Alongside him were three other dragons, a Nightmare and two deadly Nadders. I locked my eyes with him and watch carefully as he drummed a beat on his leg,
"tap tap space taptap space." I nodded and pushed the teens toward the staircase moving them upward slowly. We finally made our way to the end of the boat and liked planned the enemy had us cornered...
"Great the crazy women had us surrounded!" The fat one said (it maybe all muscles, he still looked fat to me)
"shut up Fishlegs the crazy women can hear you!" Tuffnut said quietly while smiling innocently at me, good, at least one of them was bright...
"like I care..." he mumbled on that I jumped flip back landing in a crouch on the ship's helm leaving them bright open for any attacks.
"you've made her mad" Tuff said slightly cowering, he still rose his sword as the enemies attacked but never got to hear the metal crash for, just as the soldiers came, the group was pulled out of the sea of swords by powerful claws...
I simply laughed at their surprised expressions and screams of terror, in my head of course(wouldn't want to upset the gods...) I pushed back the closest row of Vikings trying to get to me and took Hiccup's hand as he zipped past, exactly how we planned. Or that's how it should have happened...
As he came close, an arrow was shot towards , of course, being Hiccup, managed to avoid it enough not to die, the arrow had only cut his bicep, but with the fatigue and the torture, it was enough to make him fall from the awkward dragon and onto the deck.
By that time I had managed to get on the dragon he was mounting only seconds ago, knowing I would be more useful to him on the back of a fire-breathing reptile... I watch as my friend jumped to his feet sword raised, he looked exhausted but I knew he would manage to hold it together till we were home free... or at least I hoped...
Astrid POV
I finally was able to get a grip on my axe, I started to hit the claws of the Nadder who had taken me, making it shriek in panic.
"Would you stop that you unknowing little girl?" yelled Sirenya over the clash of the battle, something not esealy done with her raspy voice... I then noticed she was riding her dragon...
"Argg, you have to be kidding me! When Hiccup meant getting our escape, he didn't mean these sacs of scales, did he?" I raged, she simply rolled her eyes and turned her dragon back to the fight randomly ordering it to fire. "I'm going to hit him so hard for this, his next generation is going to feel it..." I yelled and stopped waking the Nadder and climbed on it's back...
Well looks like I was going to hitch a ride on my worse enemy ...
"knock it off you blistering idiots!" I said without even looking back to my team, knowing they were trying to fight their way out.
I looked down to where Hiccup had fallen. He was still fighting, trying desperately to both, get to the side of the boat and not to die. I watched as he finally made his way after slashing the Viking who had ran away when Hiccup had threatened him while still in our cell.
Sirenya lowered the dragon not too far from him, ready for his jump. I watched as he leaped over the side and 'flew' into the air... "HICCUP!" I screamed too late, as I looked passed my rider and saw Dagur pulling back the string of a bow. Hiccup had heard me but like I thought it was too late to completely avoid it, all he had managed was to slightly twist to avoid the arrow penetrating his heart. (funny how Astrid alway's calls him Hiccup when his in danger of dying...)
I watched in horror as he fell limply on Sirenya's dragon, an arrow sticking out from his side. While I was too shocked (and worried) to move a muscle, Siren kept calm and swiftly ordered the beasts to get us out of here...
Once we were far enough, Sirenya stood up as if she wasn't on a living beast, hundreds of meters in the air.
"Ok, I need anything that can stop the blood flow..." she said quickly while putting Hiccup in a steady position, Snotlought was about to throw her his cloak but was stopped by Fishlegs
"And what do you think you're doing?"
Snotlought looked at him annoyed and rolled his eyes. "I'm helping," he said simply
"Helping the enemy?" Fishlegs returned trying to corner him
"Helping the guy who keeps sacrificing himself for a bunch of idiots" he finished, throwing the piece of fabric. After that, Fish and Ruff stayed quiet... I turned to the girl busy ripping an arrow out of Hicc's side.
"Is he going to be all right?" I asked quietly, she studied me for a second, probably debating wider or not she should order the dragons to dump us in the sea... After a while, she nodded. A breath of relief escaped my mouth, that stopped me, what was happening to me? Damon was just a traitor and yet... I looked back at the rider now 'bandaged' up and sleeping it off in front of Siren. As I studied him I noticed his whole composter looked a tad lost, like he didn't know where to turn to anymore, the way he was pressed close to his 'mute' friend like she was the only thing left familiar in his life...
That awoke some weird feeling in me like I had a knot in my stomach threatening to rip my insides, sending waves of anger through my body...That witch, I saw Hiccup grow, not her as we were young we played together not her, she had no right to_ No, no, no. Stop it, Astrid, just no.
I tried clearing my head by looking at the view, but sadly that only brought more question, like for example where in Valhalla were we heading? I looked at Snotlought silently questioning him but like expected came with no answer.
I was about to ask our silent ally when she spoke up "we're here..."
"But there nothing... here" far enough, on the outline of the sea was the discreet trace of a lone island.
Time laps and change of POV ooh my so much going on! ;) (Hiccup)
The last thing I remembered was a great pain exploding in my side, where exactly, no idea all I had the time to register was pain before I passed out. So imagine my surprise when I woke up in my bed, in one of my bungalows back on itchy armpit...
I turned my head to see Sirenya sitting on a chair in the corner looking outside lost in her thoughts...She looked exhausted, her choppy hair, choppier than usual was pulled behind her ears, letting the sunlight hit her ivory skin marked with slight cuts from our escape. Even with that blemish, she looked more beautiful than ever, so free... She turned her head and froze once she saw I was awake, her tired grin stretched into a smile. I smiled back, she must have taken care of me after I blacked out. She got up and handed me a glass of water not before sitting on the edge of my bed.
"You've been out for a while..." she said simply without any rashness to her voice
"how long?" I asked before taking a sip
"About 5 hours..." she said looking outside the balcony once more.
"You've been speaking a lot..." I acknowledged, deciding to break the silence that had taken the room, she smiled.
"yeah, I'll have a lot of meditation coming my way when I go back..." she chuckled
"Are you going back?" I asked sitting up slowly, Siren lost her smile and looked at me. For once, I wasn't able to read her emotions, it was like looking at the sea, quiet and unpredictable... She opened her mouth but was interrupted by a loud crash.
The outmosphère of the room changed juristically at that moment, passing from tensed and clashing to alert and united... I jumped out of my bed and ran to the emergency staircase that led directly to the ground, Siren hot on my track. I leap stairs after stairs only wearing a pair of pant and the bandages covering the lower half of my chest, but hey, can you blame me? This was my place after all!
I was met by the sight of the berkians yelling at each other, Fishlegs was screaming to snotlought while Ruff kept Astrid and Tuff from interrupting by sending them insults after insults, all of it next to MY pile of scrap metal, or what used to be a pile but now was just Snotlought sitting in the middle of scattered metal trash.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE!" I screamed shutting them up, they turned to look at me.
"You're up," Astrid said in a whisper, I saw a glimmer of happiness in her eyes, but she soon extinguished it, like one would blow out a candle.
I shook the image and turned serious once again. "I asked a question"
"It's nothing," Fishlegs said looking at Snotlought defying him to say anything. I sighed...
"Look I don't have time fo this, so just try and not break the island or kill anything, " I said pulling Snotlought to his feet
"I'm sorry, are we stopping you from teaching a dragon pup how to roll on its belly?" laughed Ruff
"Haha funny," I said flatly while heading back "But no I have to try and make sense of who want's me dead this time_" I said dragging a hand through my hair
"wait don't we already know that? I mean isn't it Dagur?" Asked Astrid taking a step towards me
I sighed and stopped walking up the stairs "No that would be too obvious... trust me my enemies usually like playing smart..."
"How many enemies do you have?" she asked
"A book full..." I said turning back to look at her, that seemed to take her back. Siren walked up behind me quiet as ever. Still eying them I bent down;
"You popped your stitches Hic," She whispered, looking down, I noticed that in fact my once white bandages were now marked with a faint red line. "come on let's head back upstairs and leaves these bozos, well determine what to do with them tomorrow."
I sighed looking at the sea where the sun had started it's decent, it had gotten late I guess, it was probably around 5pm...
Hopefully, I wasn't going to regret this.
"No" she looked at me bewildered "They can sleep in section 3"
"Wait you trust us enough to let us sleep in your home?" Astrid asked surprised, while fish and ruff stayed back, Snotlought and Tuffnut came and stood beside her shock written on their faces.
"No!" I laughed "Don't get me wrong, the only reason I'm not making you sleep here is because I don't trust you enough to sleep so close to the stables, at least up there I can keep an eye on you..." With that, I climbed back upstairs with siren supporting me
Autor's POV (and time laps)
Astrid crumbled on the soft mattress Hiccup provided. It actually had surprised her, the tuff and emotionless dragon rider had actually been nice to her unit. It almost mad her regret how they had treated him back on Berk when we had caught him... Sure we considered him an enemy, but at the moment he didn't consider us any different really, we were merely obligated allies pushed on him when we were trapped Dagur... For, since his enemies had seen them, her group was now associated with a traitor to her own people...
She rolled over to her side looking out into the room passed the kitchen where on the balcony she noticed Damon still awake... He was arched over a heavy book. She watched as he turned page after page, the candles surrounding him cast shadows along his from making the whole scene more serious, he stopped rubbing his chin and looked straight forward, deep in thoughts. Suddenly, Damon furiously shoved the desk's material including the book on the floor screaming in exasperation as he pushed his face into his hands. She watched as a white hand pulled one of his hands out of under his face and towards the shadowed figure of Sirenya. Hiccup looked up, years of tiredness visible on his face, The mute fighter came closer and sat on the desk, she smirked palely...
Astrid walked rapidly and hide in the casted dark of the door frame, she could finally listen to the conversation.
"Siren, I don't know what to do anymore!" Hiccup said through his gritted teeth
"Don't worry you'll figure it out" she tried soothing him
"No! that's just it!" he pushed her away and got up " I can't make sense of anything, it's all so mixed up! Dagur, Pitch?! I mean how does that make any sense!" Astrid saw Hiccup's shadow now passing back and forth moving his arm in an energic demeanor.
"Ok... who else have you got?" His friend asked leaning back on her arms
"That's one of the problems! They're targeting all my known allies! No one I already defeated matches the situation! I checked the whole book, twice!" He started yelling
"Hiccup, calm down" she returned calmly
"No, I won't, I can't! I...I can't take it anymore, everyone out to kill me all the time!"He turned around in a fury "I can't live at peace Sirenya! The Norns just hate me!"
"Stop blaming everything on your gods all the time" she yelled exasperated
"It's just an expression!" he explained annoyance and anger mixing in his voice
"don'Tuse that tone with me Horrendous or I swear..." She raised her hand, but stopped, Hiccup crossed his arms and looked at her
"You'll do what? Kidnapped me? Torture me ? Attack the one closest to me? Well, guess what, at this point, it would all be cliche!" he turned around "argh, You don't get it do you? This time, everything is against me! I have to help the people from my past not die while there holding my best friend captive ! I'm facing an enemy I don,t even begin to understand!"
"At least you have me," She said with no emotion
" Actually I am, you have to go back to your people, where you don't even have the right to talk!" he said with an over honeyed voice
She took a breath to keep her from strangling him where he stood "you know what, maybe the Berkians were right to bully you and drive you away!"
"OH YEAH AND WHY IS THAT? PLEASE INLIGHTED ME!" He screamed
"BECAUSE YOUR A MAJEURE ASSWHOLE HICCUP! YOU'RE A GOOD FOR NOTHING!" He seemed taken aback by the last insult, even Sirenya noticed. She looked down avoiding his gaze, knowing she had gone too far...
"I..." her voice broke, shaking her head and blinking away a wave of emotion, the warrior knocked a rhythm on the desk before walking away, something that seemed to hurt Hiccup, even more, It actually made him hold on to the balcony railing not to fall backwards...
All anger and wrath had left as soon as Siren had left... Astrid could see that.
She watched has Hiccup slid down to the floor and let himself get flooded by sadness... for the first time since she had met this traitor, she saw behind the ruff and different facade...
She saw a man lost and afraid, but still trying to protect his friend no matter what. She saw someone nice bright and generous. She saw a hero.
All she suddenly wanted, was to run up to him and hug him, tell him everything was going to be alright... but how could he let her when she had let him down...
She didn't even want to hurt the random terrible terror who flew down and rested on My rider's shoulder. the Berkian observed as it nudged slightly his check trying to cheer him up, but obviously only managing to embed a sad smile on his face. He looked up at the sky sighing heavily...
"Man, I wish you were here bud, my life would be so much easier" Hiccup's eye abruptly widen like something had clicked...
"that's it" he whispered straitening his back "now it all makes sense!" he pushed himself up with a wild grin, surprised and scared he would see her, Astrid headed back to her mattress and watched has he took many supplies from the floor and started working, taking notes and working maps...
About an hour later as Astrid's eyelids felt heavier by the second, the Rider looked up from his work straight at her. Her breath caught in her thought, had he known she had eavesdropped on his whole conversation and harsh goodbye?
But she soon realised if he had sensed her presence during the events, that's not why he was addressing her at the moment, for a melancholic smile stretched on his pitied face. A smile she knew too well since she often adopted that grim face in battle when she there would no doubt be too many casualties...
Thoughts she'll have to dwell on for the rest of the night as she fell asleep...
Hiccup's POV
I made my way through the central lawn as I headed for the stables. Silently as possible, not to wake my slumbering reptile friends, I walked to the end of the wide space and opened a small cage, taking its content and put them on his body trying to walk and not to drop them at the same time.
I carefully placed my 'cargo' on the grass and waited for them to fully wake up. As I waited for my three terrible terrors to stop yawning, I rolled all three messages I had prepared mere minutes ago. I firstly took shiver, she looked at me with her big green eyes ready and alert... I smiled and patted down her icy blue wings after attaching the first roll to one of her back leg.
"Alright you know where to go," I said as she started heading her way "be careful!"
I took Saoirse next he was the toughest terror I've seen since... well ever. He was bright orange, vivid really. Anyway, I attached the message and with a determined nod he flew away to deliver his message. The last one jumped up on my lap and wiggled her pinkish tail. I smirked;
" Yeah you're my special girl aren't you, Amour?" I chuckled scratching her chin. She screeched happily, I tied the scroll and she left quickly.
I got up from my crouch and looked at them leaving for their designed situation... Each trained for that exact purpose I even had chosen them specifically for the jobs and their destinations, yes I had even coordinated their colors with their addresses.
I needed help... If any of us was going to survive this, we needed help, for once I knew wasn't going to be able to handle this... I knew I was going to loose more people I bared to count, I may this time actually, lose myself...
I needed help and needed it quickly...
Sighing I turned back and headed for the rest of my sleepless night to prepare for any possibilities. For I knew this battle was escalating into a war
So that's it for now and since this took a lot of time I would really appreciate your feedback!
Also, I have to question the first one, if you answer correctly, you get and OC! yeah! and the other well your answer will be featured in the book...
1) can any of you guess what is Sirenya's power? (that's the OC one :))
2) What would you name the Berk's gang, the one including Astrid, Fishlegs, Ruff, Tuff and Snotlought? (you get to name the team!)
so that's it you shall soon know the winners and the answers!
ciao my loves ;)