A/N: This fanfic has at least 3 or 2 more chapters left and it's finished! Whoa… Well I do plan to write a sequel called "How to survive Camp DragonFire" and there a few more things will be explained, Hiccup's mysterious visions will come true and a viking camp will be set up in Berk. Anyway hope you guys like this chapter ^^
The girl then turned to leave. Hiccup wished he could call out to her and ask who she was, but something told him it was a bad idea. He stepped back and the girl left without another word.
This time no one slapped him or yelled for him to wake up. He woke on his own and let his eyes adjust to the darkness surrounding him. This time the light that had been above them was gone and seemed to shine at the other side of the 'room'. Although, even if the light wasn't anywhere near them, it still brought a weak ray of light toward Hiccup. He was able to see the sitting figure of Anella and the sleeping figure of Toothless.
"You awake?" Anella whispered without turning around.
"Yeah," Hiccup sighed. His left leg suddenly felt cold. Tattered flesh and muscle held on to the bone that stuck strangely out of his knee. He couldn't bear look at it. It made him want to hurl.
"I have a plan. It's stupid, but I have a feeling it's our only chance." Anella finally turned around.
At the word 'plan', Toothless raised his heavy head and blinked sleepily at Anella. He scooted over to sit beside her and Hiccup.
"What's the plan?" Toothless yawned greatly and flicked his tail to show that they had his full attention.
Leaning in closer, Anella explained the plan to them. Hiccup sat up to hear. Toothless flapped his ear fins to hear better. The plan was this. Anella said she was guessing the Beguile Soul Eater must have had some kind of soul-sucking tubes stuck in its throat for sucking in the souls. If they disabled those tubes, the whole beast might die in some way.
Hiccup and Toothless didn't mean to be rude, but they both burst out laughing.
"Soul-sucking tubes? I don't think so Anella." Hiccup laughed, but winced immediately. The wound on his left side hurt when he laughed.
Not only that, but he felt his fur overcoat get soggier from the fresh blood that gushed out of the open wound. Soon his overcoat would be no more help to him. It would just be a wet, blood-reeking rag. He needed to bandage his wound up. Sadly all the medical supplies were in Fishleg's basket, which he probably lost.
"How do you know, oh smart one! If you're so smart then why don't you come up with a plan?" Anella cried and threw her arms helplessly into the air.
Hiccup didn't answer.
Anella smirked and crossed her arms over her chest, "So we will go along with my plan. Hiccup get on Toothless' back .I'll get on after."
Toothless nudged Hiccup. Sighing, Hiccup reached his hands out and gripped onto Toothless' saddle. He hopped up onto one leg and felt nauseous. It was the first time he stood up after he woke up in this place. His vision blurred and he felt blood ooze from under his overcoat and drip onto his left remaining pant leg.
"Hiccup, are you okay?" Toothless asked as he sat there crouched low, so Hiccup was able to climb on.
Hiccup's vision got slightly better, but he was looking down at his feet, er, foot when he began to see good once more. That wasn't such a great idea. He saw himself standing on air and immediately got dizzy again.
"Anella! I think you should help him into the saddle. Get on first!" Toothless called to Anella.
Nodding, Anella scrambled her feet and staggered over to Toothless. She still felt a bit afraid and unstable walking on air. Though she knew she shouldn't be. She had been a Night Fury. Except when I was one, I had two strong wings supporting me! She thought and reached Hiccup.
First she climbed onto Toothless' back. Holding out her hands to Hiccup, she watched him groan in pain as he stretched his own hands to reach hers. Once their hands made contact, she pulled him up. He cried out as he tried to place his right foot somewhere and made sure his left one didn't anymore hurt than it already was.
It took a good five minutes to get Hiccup onto the saddle behind Anella. She snatched up Toothless' reins, while Hiccup gripped her shoulders tightly. He was afraid he might slip off. Holding onto her shoulders didn't seem like such a great idea. His hands were sweaty and constantly slipped off.
Turning deep red, Hiccup knew the only way was if he held on to Anella's waist. He tried to find a way to position his arms around her waist, but didn't really know how to without making it feel or look awkward. Anella spun around to glance at him.
"Hiccup, this is no time to start thinking about how you put your arms around me! I seriously don't care!" she told him and felt the color rise a bit in her cheeks.
Hiccup closed his eyes and locked his arms right under her ribcage. She turned back around and saw Toothless watching them with a raised eyebrow.
"Okay Toothless, let's go!" Anella waved her hand forward and he nodded.
She snapped the stirrups into place and turned around to see Toothless' red tailfin move into position. Toothless let out an excited roar and sprung into the air. It felt strange thought when he did so. He sort of just floated upward.
Annoyed, he shook his head and began to flap his wings harder as they fly straight. Anella didn't seem to be giving Toothless any directions. He was sniffing the air curiously as they flew along and found his way around the dark by scent.
"Anella, I mean since the Beguile Soul Eater sucks in souls, why aren't we seeing any souls floating around?" Hiccup asked quietly, from where he held onto her.
"Maybe they're invisible. Hiccup, I don't know! Maybe they're hiding!" Anella replied with a loud sigh.
"Well, I don't think WE are dead. If we were, I bet we'd be invisible. Plus I don't think souls bleed nor have bodies like we do. We are still alive." Hiccup then said with a hint of happiness and relief playing at the edge of his sentence.
In his mind he imagined himself doing cartwheels and flips at the words 'We are still alive'. He was never so happy to hear those words. He also wondered if he could even manage a cartwheel. Probably not. His face would meet the ground faster than he could say '1, 2, 3.'
"That's the best news I've heard all day," Anella sighed, "Let's hope we stay that way."
The place was getting darker and Hiccup suddenly felt afraid of the dark. Who knew what kind of cursed souls roamed the Beguile Soul Eater's body. The more he thought about the idea the more freaked out he became. When he felt something brush his foot, he almost cried out. Anella turned to him and said it was just her boot.
Shaking, Hiccup hugged Anella tighter and felt a slight breeze crawl up his left leg. It bothered him how his leg was out exposed. The bone snagged the cold first and let the rest electrify his leg. He shivered and wished he could tie something—anything, around his leg.
"HOLD ON!" Toothless suddenly exclaimed. He froze in mid flap and turned to glance curiously at Anella and Hiccup; who was peeking out from behind Anella with wide eyes.
"What is it?" Anella asked.
"Change of plan. We go for the Beguile Soul Eater's four soul chambers. Remember the beast is four dragons, so it has the four dragon souls kept safe. We need to destroy the four soul chambers and then the monster will be gone." Toothless grinned a proud, toothy smile.
Both Anella and Hiccup asked him where the four soul chambers were located.
"I'm guessing where the heart should be. That is, if the thing even has a heart." Toothless cocked his head as he made his guess.
"Sounds good to me, lead us there." Anella patted him on the neck and Toothless took off once more.
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A dark mist encircled them as they fly deeper and deeper into the beast. Hiccup now had a reason to be scared. The mist was colder than the air that wrapped around them. It was also really light and when it brushed past you, it felt like almost nothing at all. When it touched Hiccup's cheek and slithered under his chin, he yelped at the cold and used one hand to swat the mist away.
Toothless had a hard time getting around with the mist crawling around him and covering the weak scents he was following. So he used his sharp hearing to listen for any kind of sounds. All he got was Hiccup's yelping and Anella's cursing as the mist kept weaving in and out of her hair.
"Guys, I think I know what this stupid mist is. It's the Beguile Soul Eater's own soul. This is the form it takes before it sucks up the four. I bet this soul it protecting the four soul chambers." Anella explained.
"So when the four chambers are destroyed the Beguile Soul Eater will take this form?" Hiccup asked.
"No. I believe that once the four soul chambers are destroyed this soul is destroyed in a way too." Anella told him.
The mist seemed to either understand what they were saying (which seemed impossible) or they needed to hurry along. The air around was getting thicker and suddenly not so cold anymore. They began to think if it was the mist creating all this heat.
No one could really take it anymore. Anella and Hiccup were both sweating buckets. Only Toothless seemed okay. He turned to look over at them and once he saw how Anella and Hiccup couldn't take the heat.
That feeling where his skin felt itchy and it felt as if tiny little bugs were crawling on him came to Hiccup. He couldn't believe he was experiencing this in the winter. Even if all winter he wished for summer to come quicker, now he didn't. Summers in Berk were a lot like the heat smacking him now.
The mist seemed to disappear at the small heat wave. The answer was clear: the mist had nothing to do with the sudden increase in temperature. As it sucked away from the group, it became easier to see and Toothless was able to locate the scent again.
They flew upward and when the rush of cold air slapped them, Hiccup heard a loud sigh of relief escape his lips.
It was like that one summer a few years back. It had been the hottest summer Berk had ever seen. The grass and most plants were all dried up, waiting for droplets of rain to fill them up. Trees were bare or the leaves would just droop downward. It was hot and sticky inside houses, so there was no point of sitting there.
After at least a week of the heat, vikings had enough. Someone had suggested they all jump into the cold ocean. Hiccup still remembered how good it felt to have the cold water run along his sunburned skin.
This was what this sudden cold air felt like.
"And look what's up here!" Toothless grinned. He had been right. There were four frozen ice spheres sticking to inside walls of the Beguile Soul Eater. Each was at least the size of Toothless himself.
"Shoot fire at them! The ice will melt and then it might destroy whatever is inside!" Hiccup cried as he peeked over Anella's shoulder.
Taking a deep breath, Toothless got ready to blow.
A/N: And what if something goes wrong? We'll see… Anyway I will continue tomorrow or if not tomorrow then defiantly Friday. Sorry if this chappie is a bit short. It's raining really hard outside, plus the thunder is going crazy with the lightning. And there is a tornado and hail alert where I live. Some weather huh?