A/N: The reviews seriously made my day! Thank you SO much! It was hard not giving anything away in the previous chapter and I tried not to use any dialogue. But is Hiccup really dead? I might choose to tell you in this chapter or I might keep you hanging a bit longer and only give out important details =)

Voices. He heard two slightly familiar voices.

"Slap him across the face. He'll wake." came a female voice. She (whoever she was) seemed to speaking in Dragonese.

"What? No!" came a dragon's voice. Hiccup tried concentrate on the girl's and dragon's voice. But he still felt like an invisible force was squeezing his mind along with his thoughts.

It was as if he was tumbling into a dark chasm and would never reach the bottom. His mind was like this. He'd try to grasp a thought or concentrate on something, but it would slip away from him and then he wasn't able reach the main point and hold on to it. His main point was his ground; his final realization.

"Then he won't wake! We need him! I know he's still alive!" came the girl's voice again.

"Fine…. Hiccup I'm so sorry, but I have to do this…" came the dragon's voice again. Hiccup tried to grasp onto the two voices and find out who they were, but he had trouble hearing them.

SMACK!

"Owwwwww!" Hiccup suddenly howled and his eyes flew open.

For few seconds he couldn't see anything. His vision was blurred and he was seeing blurred red circles dance right in front of his face. Not only that, but his cheek burned. Shaking, he brought his trembling fingers to his face and gingerly touched the hot spot.

"Hiccup! Are you okay?" came the girl's voice again.

Blinking away the red circles and shaking his head, he tried to sit up. Two firm hands pushed him back down. Then a stern voice told him that it was best he didn't get up. Nodding, he brought his fingers to his face and gently rubbed his eyelids.

"Anella? Toothless?" Hiccup whispered when his eyes cleared up and he saw the two figures looking down on him. Slowly Toothless pushed Hiccup up a bit, so that he was still lying, but was sitting up in a way too.

Anella was kneeling down beside him with her hands on her knees. Hiccup noticed her hands were covered in scratches with blood droplets sliding out of some. She squeezed her hands into fists and Hiccup's eyes traveled up to her face.

Her green eyes were not bright as they used to be. Maybe it was all the worry, but they were a dull green color and reminded Hiccup the color of his pants. Maybe it was how pale her face was, that brought out the dullness and fading in her eyes. Even her hair was lighter in color. It had been undone from its braid and her long brown hair fell all the way down to her waist. Now as it lost color, it looked a little more sand colored.

The rest of her wasn't in its best condition either. Her long sword was missing and her winter coat was missing half of its collar and most of the bottom half. Her silver leggings were torn and now weren't their original color. A dusty gray layered over the silver. Other than that, she looked fine. Well sorta. Hiccup still thought there was something more missing from her.

Of course Toothless looked the same. He looked the same way Hiccup last saw him. Well except for his eyes. Just like Anella's they were fading. Usually they were bright and looked a bit on the fierce side. Now it was as if someone blew out the usual flame that burned in his yellowish-green eyes.

"Hiccup, are you sure you're okay?" Anella asked again.

Closing his eyes he shook his head. It was his left leg and left hip that was sending blasts of hot pain rocketing through his body. Before he had a chance to tell them what bothered him, he heard a gasp come from Anella and a loud whimper from Toothless.

His eyes fluttered open and he saw the two of them staring at Hiccup's left leg. Where his prosthetic was supposed to be. Well it wasn't there anymore. Instead there was his thigh and then where the prosthetic leg was connected to his knee was tattered flesh and muscle gripping onto the leg's bone.

"AHHH! Oh Gods! What happened?" Hiccup screamed and looked away. Just staring at his half leg gave him shivers and gave him bad thoughts that poisoned his mind.

"We don't know." Toothless replied with a shake of his head.

Gasping for air Hiccup placed a hand over his stomach, but when his elbow touched his left hip, he heard a wet sloshing sticky sound. Eyes widened, he moved his arm away and saw his shirt slashed open there and blood trickling out. He must have smudged the blood around the wound, because blood covered his whole left side starting from the top of his rib cage to his hip bone. There was no way the wound was that big.

He was wrong. Right after he ran his fingers over the bloody parts and even where his shirt wasn't ripped open, he felt the crinkled blood that bunched up alongside the wound. Wincing he pressed the side of his overcoat over his left side and held it tight. He had to stop the blood from gurgling out. Too much had already been released.

"Okay, you guys know anything that happened? Or at least where we are?" Hiccup demanded and was finally able to sit upright without Toothless pushing him up.

Now that he mentioned it, narrowing his eyes he glanced around. Where the heck are we?

It was as if he had been bonked on the head and had plunged into darkness. No matter how much he squinted, he couldn't see anything on the other side of the room or area or wherever they were. There was only a weak light shining from above. But that was no help. It just gave him the ability to see Anella, Toothless and himself.

"Well, I think you remember we were being chased by that crazy Beguile Soul Eater. Then Toothless was hit. I'm not sure by what. But then Toothless was going out of control and these giant talons were lashing out at us. I think that's how you might have lost your leg and got that long wound on your hip and the rest of your left side. After we heard screams coming from the others. Then we were swallowed by the Beguile Soul Eater. I think. But I do know that we are floating inside its body right now." Anella explained and watched Hiccup's reaction.

"FLOATING? Are we dead? Are we just souls? What's going on?" Hiccup cried.

"I can't exactly answer the whole dead-or-are-we-just-souls question. But yes, we're floating." Anella bit her lip.

Hiccup looked around and then underneath him. There was nothing there. It was all air. But it felt like he was sitting on something cold! Panicking, he looked over at Anella and Toothless. Toothless looked completely calm and motioned with his paw for him to do the same. Anella then sat up straighter and crossed her legs.

"Look on the bright side, at least we aren't falling." Toothless smiled and lay back.

"But we are floating! That's not normal!" Hiccup cried and Anella made a shushing noise.

"We're inside the Beguile Soul Eater's body, remember? So I bet all the souls help us float of something." Anella explained.

Covering his face with his hands, Hiccup couldn't believe it. It was impossible to be inside this monster and not be dead. Even if the beast swallowed them, it'd probably crunch them up before swallowing. The Beguile Soul Eater had the Whispering Death's horrific mouth for Thor's sake!

It was obvious they were dead.

"This is the worst day of my life." He shook his head and brushed his hair out of his eyes.

"We'll find a way out," Toothless assured him and lay down on his stomach. Curling his tail around his paws, he let out a yawn, "But for now, I need a nap."

"A nap? How can you sleep at a time like this?" Hiccup wailed.

"Hiccup, you need one too. Rest is what you need now most. I'll watch over." Anella told him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

Lying back down, Hiccup wondered why they needed the sleep if they were already helpless souls and sleep wouldn't do them any good. Closing his eyes, he didn't argue. Even if he was already knocked out earlier and was tired of seeing darkness, he was glad when he curled up on his right side. His left side let out a sigh as he turned away from it.

At first he couldn't sleep. Sleep was out there galloping out in its fields and Hiccup just couldn't catch it, no matter how many sheep he counted. It was Stoick who told him to always count sheep if you couldn't sleep. He heard a lot of vikings on Berk counted dragons instead, because their sheep kept wandering away.

Except when he began to count dragons, they wouldn't give him sleep. Sighing he tucked his arms into his stomach and pulled his legs in closer. It had to be the cold that kept him from falling asleep. Though it was strange, since he fell asleep better when it was cold. If it was hot, he'd be tossing and turning all night long. It had to be his mind worrying and dealing with too many things.

"Anella?" he raised his head and looked up at her.

"Hmmm?" she turned to glance at him.

"Remember when you were suggesting those crazy ideas to deal with the Soul Eater? Well there was one where you said if we're inside the beast we can kill it from the inside." Hiccup whispered, so he wouldn't wake snoring Toothless.

She was silent. Looking away from Hiccup, she scratched her chin and her fading green eyes twinkled with a new light. Hiccup didn't seem to see this. Smiling, she glimpsed at Hiccup and nodded to herself.

Smiling too, Hiccup shut his eyes and sleep magically washed over him. Maybe when he woke up, Anella would have some kind of plan ready for them. If she did and they managed to get out of here, Hiccup wished he could find out whether he was dead or not.

Although it didn't really matter if he was dead or not. If he was just a floating soul, he still wanted to see what became of Berk. That is if the Green Death did go there. It could be that he got there and everything was perfectly fine.

Or what if souls can't travel. I'm probably thinking of ghosts… Then what will happen when I escape this monster? And what ever happened to Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Tuffnut and Ruffnut? What about their dragons? Anella said their screams were heard and then it was all quiet. Hiccup's mind let those last thoughts linger in his mind, before they were replaced by dreams.

Nightmares. It more like nightmares.

Hiccup was walking down a long dark passageway. The walls were cold as Hiccup felt his way along. Not only were they cold, but not to mention slimy. He didn't even want to know what it was.

The floor seemed to be covered in the same slimy substance, because as he walked he heard the sloshing of it all over the floor. It grossed him out. He wished he could turn back and find the way out.

"Keep walking, boy." Came a teasing, icy voice.

Freezing on the spot, Hiccup didn't dare step forward. Something or someone was defiantly watching him as he moved through.

A gust of bitter wind smacked him in the back and seemed to be pushing him forth. Where the wind came from made Hiccup think if the wind was coming from outside. This meant there had to be a way out.

"I said keep walking. Or are you too afraid?" came the voice again and Hiccup recognized it as a girl's voice.

Ahead a light flashed. With his heart hammering to his throat, Hiccup made quiet steps forward. Once he reached the wall, he peeked from behind.

There was a torch lit on the wall.

Gulping, Hiccup stepped away from the wall and tiptoed into some sort of room. Or maybe it was just another hallway. He couldn't tell yet.

"Hello? Uh… anyone there?" Hiccup asked in a small voice.

"Here," came the girl's voice again.

Before she ran away again, Hiccup caught a glimpse of long blonde hair, laughing green eyes and a teasing smirk. She wore a white flowing dress.

It was the girl from his vision.