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Hiccup's POV
I was walking to the Great Hall for breakfast when Stoick and Gobber came charging at me.
"What's wrong?" I said.
"Corey...he is gone. Broke out of jail last night" Gobber said.
My entire body went nub.
Corey...Corey was loose...he had broken out. How in the world had he done that!
I then realized what this meant.
"Astrid" I whispered and sprinted to her house.
I ran into her as she was exiting her house and we fell to the ground.
"Hiccup! What are you doing!" she yelled pushing me off.
"I...I...Corey...he got out" I said breathing heavy from running so fast.
Astrid paled at the sound of his name.
"We need to find him. Now" she said getting up fast and I followed her.
"You head to the jail. I am going to alert the Riders and find Ironclad" I said. She nodded and we ran in separate directions.
I soon found Ari and told her of the situation.
She quickly snapped into action and told me she would have everyone ready to go and Kol and Klint in the air searching for Corey.
I then found Ironclad.
"He is gone!" Ironclad yelled.
"Yes. Now come on!" I said waving him to follow me.
We soon got to the jail and saw Stoick, Gobber, and Astrid. We looked at the damaged cell, the bars were blown right open.
"Ok, so what the hell happened here!" Ironclad said.
"I don't know, why don't you tell us" Stoick said glaring at Ironclad.
"Well the way I see it is that he freaking escaped that's what!" Ironclad yelled.
I put my hand on his shoulder and calmed him down.
I knew he wanted to see Corey dealt the punishment he deserved for killing Calypso. Now that Corey was free, who knows what he would do to us.
I bent down and picked up a broken scrap of metal and Ironclad followed me.
The bent twisted metal couldn't have been bent using sheer force. This was morphed by heat. Extreme heat. Heat that I knew could only come from one place.
"Look at this" I said handing the metal to Ironclad.
"Thats... thats not possible. He...he would never do that" he said.
"You know that the only way the metal would bend this way was if he did it" I said standing up.
"No! He would never do that to me!" Ironclad yelled, standing up "There has to be another explanation!"
"What are you two talking about!" Stoick yelled.
I looked at Ironclad and sighed "There is only one way the metal could be bent this way... a dragon did it. More specifically a dragon that can fire a plasma blast"
"Toothless did this?" Astrid said.
"No, Toothless's fires a blue plasma blast. It could blast open the cell but it would take a couple more blasts and the metal would be bent a different way" I said.
"So then what?" Gobber said "A troll carried the villain away?"
"Enough with the trolls Gobber!" Stoick said.
Gobber then muttered something about socks and crossed his arms.
"There is only one other dragon that fires plasma. One other that is powerful enough to blast the cell door open and bend the metal this way" I said.
I took a deep breath "A Star Chaser dragon."
Everyone then looked at Ironclad. Stoick was angry, Astrid was shocked and Gobber looked confused.
"I know he didn't do this. There has to be another explanation!" Ironclad said.
"The metal doesn't lie Ironclad" I said "I am so sorry, but..."
"He couldn't do this! He wouldn't!" Ironclad yelled and ran out of the jail.
"I knew there was something suspicious about him. He is probably in league with Corey" Stoick said.
Thats when my blood began to boil.
"You have NO idea what he has been through! Ironclad would NEVER be apart of any plot to free Corey" I yelled at the top of my lungs.
"How do you know!" Stoick said.
"Corey did something to Ironclad...something horrible" I said hanging my head.
"What did he do?" Gobber asked.
"He...its not my story to tell. I'm sorry" I said walking out of the jail and I felt Astrid walking beside me.
"I don't understand. If what you say is true then why? Why would Black Ice betray his best friend?" Astrid said.
"I don't know" I said "But I plan on finding out. Come on, we need to find Ironclad and have a little chat with Black Ice."
"You can talk to Black Ice?" Astrid said "I thought you only understood Toothless."
"Ironclad has a connection with Black Ice, like mine and Toothless's, but deeper. Ironclad told me he can actually hear Black Ice's voice in his head. They have the deepest connection I have ever seen" I said.
"Thats...amazing" Astrid said "How?"
"Years of being together and a special ritual that is very difficult to preform." I said "Toothless says that even we aren't ready."
"So why would Black Ice still do this? I mean if their bond is that close?" Astrid said.
"I have no idea" I said.
"Then we better find out" Astrid said.
We then took off to try and find Ironclad and Black Ice. I saw Toothless and ran up to him.
"Bud! Have you seen Black Ice or Ironclad?" I said.
"Black Ice...is at the cove" Toothless said "And his rider is running to him right now"
"Then we need to get there now" I said, hopping on Toothless and Astrid right behind me.
We then took off to the sky and were at the cove in less than a few minutes.
Ironclad's POV
This couldn't be happening!
Black Ice would never do this to me...he couldn't.
He knew how much her death hurt me... how it killed a part of me...why would he help her murderer?
I ran to the cove. I felt that Black Ice was there and was sprinting through the woods.
I soon reached the cove and saw him laying next to the water.
He sensed I was there and looked up at me.
"Why?" I chocked out.
"We need to talk" he said.
"Did you? Please tell me you didn't" I said, my voice cracking.
"I did take the evil one from the prison. But he is not free by any means." he said standing up and walking towards me.
"You...you freed him?" I said.
"He is of no means free. I can assure you that, though I cannot tell you where his location is know. I do not even possess that information. But I assure you nothing will happen." he said.
"I...I believe you. But what I want to know is why?" I said.
"Something changed the situation. It is what I need to speak to you about" Black Ice said.
"What changed?" I said.
Before he could answer Toothless, Hiccup and Astrid landed in the cove.
"SO? What did he say?" Hiccup said.
"He said that he did break Corey out of prison but 'he is of no means free' whatever that means" I said.
"Why did he do that?" Hiccup asked.
"He said something changed the situation. I don't know what but I trust Black Ice with my life and id he thought this action needed to be taken I trust him" I said.
Hiccup ran his hand through his hair "How are we going to explain this mess now?"
"I don't know" I sighed.
"Stoick is probably going crazy and if we are away for a long period of time he might assume the worst" Astrid said.
"You're right. We need to get back to the village now" Hiccup said getting on Toothless and Astrid following suit.
I then got onto Black Ice and we flew back to the center of town. Stoick was there and talking with Gobber, Ari, and Klint.
Hiccup's POV
We landed and I saw Stoick look very apprehensive at Ironclad and Black Ice.
"So?" Stoick said.
"We...umm.." I said rubbing the back of my neck "We can't really tell you?"
"What!" Stocik shouted.
"We know what happened but we don't think we can tell you...right now" I said.
Everyone would probably loose it if they knew me and Ironclad could talk to our dragons. The Riders knew we had a certain connection but I assumed they thought it was more of being able to read our dragon's body language not actual communication.
And we couldn't tell what happened without revealing that!
"I should just lock the two of you up right now!" Stoick said pointing at Ironclad and Black Ice.
Ironclad reached for his sword, but didn't unsheathe it and Black Ice growled a bit.
"You can't do that Stoick." I said.
"And why not!" he said turning to me.
"What aren't you tell us Hiccup?" Ari asked looking at me with that certain glare in her eye.
"I...Ironclad we have to tell them" I said.
Ironclad looked at me then Stoick and back again.
"Fine" he said in a huff.
"Black Ice did break Corey out be he said that Corey still isn't exactly free. The situation changed somehow and Black Ice said it had to be done" I said.
"Black Ice said this?! Dragons can't even talk! And even if they could how could you possibly understand him!" Stoick said.
"I can hear him. We have been able to have conversations for years" Ironclad said.
"Thats not possible" Stoick said shocked.
"Ironclad...how?" Ari said, shocked.
"Its true. Me and Toothless have the same connection but not as strong" I said.
"Hiccup! You too! Why didn't you tell us!" Ari said.
"Toothless said I shouldn't! He said if I told you all you would run to your dragons and try and make that connection before its time." I said, looking at Ari and Klint.
"Am I right?" I said.
"yeah" Klint muttered kicking the ground.
Ari looked ready to beat me into the ground but finally conceded "fine" she said.
"There is still the issue of an escaped prisoner here" Stoick said "And what about Ironclad? Where was he when the escape happened?"
""I was with Kol and Klint. They wanted to practice some archery so I said I would help" Ironclad said and Klint nodded.
"I confirm this. He has an alibi" Klint said crossing his arms.
"Corey has been taken care of and neither Ironclad nor Black Ice should be held responsible." I said.
"And why not?" Gobber said.
"Because I believe them and if Black Ice said it was necessary, it was necessary" I said "I know neither of them wanted to see Corey free and so if this needed to be done, so be it"
Stoick looked a bit shocked for a moment and then resumed his normal hard expression.
"And you trust them?" Stoick said studying my expression.
"With my life" I said.
"Very well." Stoick said turning around and walking away with Gobber.
I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.
"That was fun" Ironclad said sarcastically "I could really feel the love you dad had for me right there"
"He just doesn't trust your tribe thats all" I said.
"Thats not all of it" Ironclad said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"What?" I said.
"I think my father was the one he fought to a standstill all those years ago." Ironclad said.
"What?!" I said louder.
"I am pretty sure. The memory is fuzzy but I think Stoick is the man my father dueled against" Ironclad said.
We all stared at him for a couple seconds.
I blinked a couple times and walked over, patting him on the shoulder "That's something you might want to keep to yourself" I said and he laughed.
"Yeah, just imagine the look on Stoick's face! Ohh would that be priceless" Ari said laughing.
Right then a purple Terrible Terror landed in front of us.
"What the?" Ari said.
The terror then walked up to Black Ice and I assume said something then flying off.
We all looked at Ironclad.
"What in the world was that?" I said.
"Black Ice said it was a messenger. He wants to talk with me in private right now" Ironclad said hopping on his dragon.
They then took off and I turned to Toothless.
"What did that terror say?" I said.
"Just that a certain deed has been carried out" he said smugly.
"Oh my! Odin's beard I see it now!" Ari said pointing at me and Toothless.
"See what? Us talking?" I said.
"I mean I knew the dragons understood us but now I see how your head tilts to the side just a hair when listening to Toothless" Ari said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Proud of yourself?" I asked.
"Very" she said grinning and walking away with Klint.
Black Ice's POV
The terror's words still rung in my memory.
The evil human and the Exterminator known as Bladerunner have been sentenced to exile. The human was left on a deserted island, with a rather large volcano I might add, far, far, far away! With no hope of ever returning. The Exterminator was also placed on a deserted island but in the opposite direction of his rider. His wings were broken so he can never leave the island. The council sends their regards and their deepest sympathies for you and your rider.
"Mind telling me where we are going?" Ironclad said laughing.
His laughter struck a knife to my heart.
How could I tell him what he needed to know?
I landed far in the Berk forest and he stepped off of me.
"What is it? What was the 'change' that caused you to break Corey out of jail?" he asked.
Ironclad's POV
"Sit down please. There is no easy way to tell you this" he said.
I then sat down on a log and looked up at Black Ice.
"What's wrong?" I said.
"I have just learned something. I felt the need to act before I told you and hope you can forgive me."
"Whatever it is I know you had the best intentions, I already.."I started to say forgive but Black Ice cut me off.
"Please don't forgive me just yet. I need to tell you something...something about...her death"
My body went cold.
"I overheard a conversation between Stormfly's, Spark's, and Cutter's riders. They were discussing her and I overheard that..."
"What?" I said, my voice deadly cold "What were they talking about?!"
"She was carrying your unborn hatchling when she was murdered"
My body felt like it had shut down. I couldn't move.
"What?" I said my voice quiet.
"Spark's and Cutter's riders said they only found out the day before. She was about to tell you but then..."
"She was..pregnant...with...with our child?" I said.
"Yes. I am sorry. Killing another's mate and hatchling is something we dragons cannot ever forgive. I took it upon myself to see that he was rightfully punished. He and his dragon have been sent into eternal exile and will never have the possibility of returning."
"Pregnant?" I said, my voice almost a whisper.
She was pregnant...pregnant!
I could see her smiling and telling me. I could picture taking her in my arms and spinning her around.
Our child...would it have been a boy or girl? Would it look like Calypso? Or me?
It then hit me I would never know the answers to any of those questions.
I would never get to see or hold my own child or the love of my life ever again.
She was pregnant and Corey killed her! He killed my child and the love of my life in cold blood!
I then screamed at the top of my lungs and unsheathed my sword. I ran to the nearest tree and began swiping and slashing at the old oak.
I couldn't feel.
Not anything but the pain in my heart.
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This chapter was definitely more emotional than some of the previous ones and I really liked how it was a little different than the others :)
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