new chapter guys!
Thank you guys who have been reviewing and showing support, Thank you very much. And I will try to update as fast as I can but with school coming soon, at least one chapter a week will be the update schedules for this story.
So without any more distractions or interruptions, here is the new chapter so enjoy and be prepared for anything ;)
Angry was an understatement to how Stoick was feeling now.
The moment he saw the signal fire light up the sky, he led his team flying straight toward the spot as fast they could but what they saw was not a clue, it was the answer to almost all their questions! When they landed they found themselves in a smaller cover but they did find small broken pieces of a hunter's bow, but that only began to stir his anger. What really engaged his full emotions was when Astrid found a crime scene just near the beach, and two dragons.
Toothless and Windshear!
The minute they released the two dragons from their restraints, Toothless was already desperately trying to tell a message which no one could understand until he managed to throw his rider's satchel on the ground to open it. There was a note that was quickly written but it was enough to be read, if only Hiccup wasn't an intelligent hiccup who can write riddles as difficult as Hamish the second! The note was read as this:
Help, without the numbers, it's says the opposite for everyone
Eydis is a kind and wise mother who is number one
Heather is doing okay despite having two brothers
I'm currently working at the forge with Gobber on three axes
Dagur is there with me so no worries because he is working on four more axes
Snotlout will never be the heir of Berk never in five million years
We're six dragon riders, not hunters
It is lovely to tell this tale, take your time walking back
My family and I are with Toothless and won't be back in seven days
Windshear is the one who will stay behind with six Vikings
So that's that, my siblings and I are going to follow her home in eleven seconds
Get five yaks and our twelve sheep will be on their scent
This will be an easy task, so be as reckless as you could be
"I don't get it?" Gustav commented the moment everyone finished reading the note as he scratched his helmet from confusion. "Hiccup's saying that he's fine but we all know that it's not true."
"This sounds like one of Hamish's treasure riddles," Spitelout grumbled as he slapped his forehead. He shook just thinking about the day when he decided to go after that treasure alone when he was a boy, he was lucky he made it back alive and getting punished for three years!"Does the lad want to get rescued or not? And what does all this nonsense mean especially the Snotlout and the reckless part"
"I think he wrote the message like this just in case if his kidnappers found it, they won't be able to read it," Astrid suspected as the inspected the note. "Besides, all we know that the dragon hunters have something to do with all this that's happening!" If only I had Hiccup's brain then it wouldn't be so hard to decipher this note! After many attempts to try to figure out what was the meaning of the not, she sighed in frustration. Ugh, Spitelout's right for a change! Does he want to be rescued or not?! I don't what he's trying to tell us! He solved those clues like it was a piece of cake, and based on what he told me, only a hiccup could solve those riddles! Wait, a hiccup...
"Think Stoick, think," Said chief kept whispering to himself as he tried to understand what his son wrote down. This is written exactly the way Hamish the Second wrote his treasure riddles! And when Hiccup solved them all in one afternoon, he found out that Hamish the Second was a hiccup...A hiccup..."A hiccup of course!" Both Astrid and Stoick bellowed so loud that it startled everyone else who stared back at them in confusion. "We've been thinking about this the wrong way,
"We've been thinking about this the wrong way," Astrid explained as she took a closer look at the message. "We gotta think like Hiccup if we want to decode this message!"
"But we already tried that but we still don't get it," Gustav groaned.
"I know that, but none of you really knows Hiccup or had to live with him for a long period of time," Astrid continued as she looked down to read, asking herself about what Hiccup could have been thinking in that crazy brain of his when he wrote this down. That was when she noticed how the first line was a little different from the rest, especially what it said, making her wonder what he meant by 'it's opposite for everyone'. Until she saw that 'everyone' had a number written which was one, not to mention that the rest of the lines had a number but some without which she should assume that she'd had to do the opposite of what it's saying! Those numbers must be him telling us to only pay attention to the word in the position of the number! She took out a piece of paper from the satchel and a charcoal to begin to write the message while everyone was looking behind her. At last, she jumped up with joy, "I GOT IT!" She proceeded to explain to everyone else what she just found out.
"Look the lines that have a number written are telling us which word we have to decipher and the lines without the numbers we have to understand them as the opposite meaning!" She held up the paper which she read what she deciphered. "So using that, Hiccup wrote, 'Help, Eydis is working with the hunters.' the other line is telling us that we must be quick then, 'Toothless, Windshear follow our trail,' which means we gotta use Toothless and Windshear to find them and for the last line we have to understand it in its opposite meaning which is that this will be a hard task so we have to be careful!"
That's my future daughter-and-law, Stoick thought for a millisecond until his mood turned to fury when he learned that Eydis was a part of this kidnapping! "Well, you all heard the lass! Astrid, you and I will go take Toothless and Windshear to find those hunters," He then pointed to the rest of the A-Team. "The rest of you stay here and protect the village while we're gone."
"YES SIR!"
With that, Astrid mounted on Toothless to control the stir-up as the two Vikings, and four dragons took off to the sea to fly as fast they could in hopes to save Hiccup, Dagur, and Heather.
Hiccup wasn't in a good mood, well it figures. It's not every day your own mother and brother betrays you then have your enemy threaten you to fight that brother and not to lose or else his twin sister will get killed. He was locked in a separate cell far from Heather and Dagur, with no one there for him to speak to except for his thoughts. Viggo made sure Hiccup's hands were tied together while he waited for someone to come escort him to the top deck to have the fight that is scheduled to take place any moment now since it's only been a half hour waiting. "Can't say they're not a disorganized bunch of lunatics." He whispered to himself.
"Another twenty minutes!"
He wasn't startled by that announcement since he was hearing that every ten minutes! I'm going to be fighting Dagur in a life or death match...After all these years of peace treaties, small battles, chasing him down out of the archipelago, finding his sister, finding out that I'm his real brother...Then making peace with one another only for him to stab us in the back. In this case, it might be literally. He didn't know what to make of this, he knew that Dagur was doing this because of the lies he was fed, in fact, he doesn't care if he gets hurt, it's Heather he's worried about. He was sure that Dagur would never harm Heather, not ever! He could tell that night has already fallen, and so did a small memory that seemed to be one of the rare moments when he witnessed Dagur acting the opposite of deranged. In fact, when he thought about this memory now, Hiccup now realized that during that time, Dagur was trying to bond with him, as brothers...
Flashback
"Dagur this is crazy!" Four-year-old Hiccup whimpered as he held on to the tip of the tree while Dagur was holding on to the tip of the tree just across from his. "I can't jump the way you just did...I know I'm gonna fall and then daddy is gonna get mad at yours and then they'll end up not signing the treaty and then...Then.."
"Whoa, whoa, calm down Hiccup," Dagur soothed, couldn't help but laugh a bit at how intelligent his brother is despite his age. "You're not gonna fall and even if you do miss I'll be here to catch you! Nothing is gonna stop the treaty from being signed, both our dads know that." Hiccup trembled as he saw the reassurance in Dagur's face as the older boy continued. "You can do it Hiccup, trust me. I promise I will never let you fall..." He saw his little brother considering to try but only to hug the tree top tighter and shake his head.
"No, I can't. It's like what they tell me, I'm useless!" Hiccup shook his head, trying to hold in his tears. "I'm too weak to be able to make a jump like that!"
"Hey! Listen to me Hiccup!" Dagur reassured, trying to hold in his anger from what he's hearing. "You're not useless! You're not weak! And you can make that jump! Just do it, just breathe in and out, ignore the ground and look at me and this tree! Nothing else. On the count of three okay?" Despite his fear filling up, Hiccup sniffled but then he nodded as he prepared to jump.
"One..."
Hiccup took a deep breath in then released it as he narrowed his eyes to focus on the next tree top.
"Two..."
Dagur nodded in order to keep his brother calm, he could sense that he was terrified but he knew he could help him.
"THREE! JUMP!"
Hiccup finally jumped, feeling the slight wind through his hair which gave him this unexplainable feeling that he couldn't describe. However, that moment was short-lived when he grabbed one of the branches of the tree Dagur was holding on to. Both boys shared a smile of success on their faces until the branch Hiccup was holding on to snapped! The moment it snapped, it broke in half which resulted in Hiccup to fall as his eyes were wide open in fear. "HICCUP!" Dagur wasted no time to climb as fast as he could down the tree then crawled to a strong branch which Hiccup will pass by in a few seconds, his speed was faster than a speed stinger! Without hesitation, he managed to grab Hiccup's hand just in time and pulled him up. "GOT YA!"
Hiccup was trembling and trying to breathe as he still looked afraid at what he just went through as Dagur tried to comfort him. "Hey it's okay, you're okay! I got you, see I promised to catch you if you fell! But that was the stupid branch's fault. You did good Hiccup, please say something."
Out of nowhere, Hiccup embraced Dagur tightly as he began to sob. All Dagur could do was return the embrace as he patted his younger brother's head, whispering in a calm voice. "It's okay Hiccup...You didn't fall too far, and you were pretty brave to be able to jump...It's safe, though, you're safe with your big brother here..."
"What?" Hiccup looked up at Dagur with a confused face as his tears were drying up slowly
Dagur suddenly realized that he accidently said too much! "I-I'm sorry, what I mean was-
"You meant brother at arms, right?" Hiccup asked, much to Dagur's relief.
"Y-Yeah, brothers at arms! That's it!"
"Hey, Dagur..."
"Yeah?"
Hiccup was hesitant but he asked his question anyway. "Don't you get sick of me? I'm small and useless after all. I can't even jump from trees without being a coward about it.."
Dagur held his young brother as close as he could. "I'm never gonna get sick of you. You may be small but you're not useless, I mean you're the smartest and most talented kid around! And believe me, when I tell you this, when I was trying to jump trees for the first time, I kept falling so many times...Just make sure you don't tell anyone that."
"Okay brother," Hiccup nodded, not realizing how much that meant to Dagur, who was hiding his tears of joy. "If you say so."
"I know so! Just you wait my brother, we'll be the greatest chiefs this archipelago has ever seen!" The two boys spent the rest of that afternoon watching the sky from that branch they sat on until they watched the sunset and when Hiccup fell asleep on Dagur's lap. Which led to Dagur carrying him down the tree and back to the village.
End Flashback
"Brothers at arms," Hiccup mumbled to himself, shaking his head as he looked up at the ceiling. "I can't believe I was that gullible and oblivious to what Dagur really meant that day."
End of chapter guys see ya next time
