Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don't own How to Train your dragon, obviously. I only own the plot for this story and the eventual OCs
3)Dragon language is going to be written "like this"
4)Thanks Truephan, akirisan X,Toothless-the-Nighfury, Voldyne, 122boy, RockBane and Wolfguide. I hope you'll like this chapter as well.
5)Just remembering: This is a T rated story and it'll have blood, violence and some foul language in some parts of it.
6)Okay…There's not much I can say. I'm really sorry for the lateness of this chapter, but I've been quite busy lately and even in my free time, I ended up playing some games. I hope this chapter can make it up.
7)I can't prose another update next week because of my college, but I'll try as hard as I can to at least, give chapters as long as this one from now on.
8)Happy Mother's day for everyone!
Sveina's body was soaking quickly as she flew in the rain. She wouldn't mind water that much if it wasn't so cold. As she approached the island of Berk, she noticed everything there was quite dark. She had been right to guess that most of the fire the vikings used for illumination was out.
Sure, there was still fire in some watchtowers because the fire there was covered, but she was careful to avoid getting too close of them. However the darkness didn't give her just advantages. It was hard for her to scout for the building where the dragons were being held.
It has been so long that she got close to Berk, she had no clue to where even start. She then searched for a small forest near the village where she could land and try to sneak around the village.
She did so and she swallowed dry as she got inside of the village tiptoeing to not draw attention. She walked behind houses always making sure to stay out of the sight of any human. Luckily, for her, there wasn't many humans awake at that hour. Most were just guards patrolling.
She tried to smell the scent of dragons, but it was futile. The only scent she would smell was from the mud forming beneath her. She was getting too anxious. She knew she shouldn't expect find her mate immediately, but she had no clue to where to look for him.
After a few minutes looking around, she spotted a big building in the middle of the Village. It was the arena. She walked as fast as she could towards it, but then she jumped behind a house when she saw the gats of the arena opening up.
One viking got out of it and yelled turning to look back inside of the building: "Hey! I'll be right back. I'm just going to take something to eat. Don't lock the door, I don't want to soak under this stupid rain when I'm back while I wait for your lazy ass."
"Suit yourself." Came the voice of another viking from inside of the building.
Sveina stared at the man running towards one of the houses and she then decided it was now or never. She heard that there was another voice inside of that place. With a bit of luck she could take out the man in there without making much noise.
She then rushed as fast as she could towards the open gate and once she was inside she immediately looked for the other human inside of there. But then she finally started to feel the smell the scent of the other dragons locked.
Her answer came in the form of another shout: Shut up, beasts! Man. I hate take care of you stinking piece of crap!"
The reason why the human was yelling at them, was because one terrible terror whimpering. She accidentally flew to Berk, not knowing what kind of place it was, and was captured while she tried to fish at a lake.
"I swear, one of these days, I'll kill all those…" he stopped midsentence when he noticed something towering him. It was Sveina. She spun making her tail to make the viking fell and then jumped on him in order to stomp his head with her foot. This killed the guard immediately. She would have used fire, but it wouldn't had killed him as fast and his yells of pain would have called too much attention.
She also knew her time was getting thin so started to think of a way to free the dragons there. She may be searching for just her mate, but she wasn't going to abandon them like that.
The dragons behind the metal cages were really excided to see that a dragon was out there. Then they started to yell loudly for her to help them. She panicked and quickly ordered them to be quiet to not get the attention of the humans.
The deadly nadder also asked: "Do anyone know how to open these things?"
One dragon then said: "Are you seeing the weird metal stick thing hanging on his cloth? He puts that in this hole and then twists it to open this cage."
Sveina then used one of her arms, which were attached to the wings, to grab the key and do as she was told. But then she asked: "Wait, if they open this often, why are you still here?"
A dog-sized green dragon with three horns on the head., who has been there for years answered for her: "In the past we tried. Specially a fellow named Anki…But we were always punished harsly, so we ended up stopping to try flee from this place."
"Anki? You mean a deadly nadder?" she replied.
"Yes, I know him…" the dragon replied already realizing who the dragon freeing them was.
Sveina turned to it and asked with her hope rising: "Do you know where he is?" After he spoke that she managed to open the first gate to release a gronkle.
He then replied: "Was…The humans took him not long ago and he hasn't come back. I guess it has been just a couple of days. It's hard to tell the time here. I'm afraid he's dead."
'Just a couple of days?' Sveina felt a huge ache in her heart and stopped moving as she felt tears forming at her eyes as her legs started to shake. 'I missed saving him because of just a COUPLE OF DAYS?"
She, however, was snaped out of her thoughts when she heard from the other dragons: "Please, help us!"
She had to swallow her sorrow in order to help the dragons and go back to her family. She knew that she should be ready for this news. She knew Anki could be dead long before she went on this mission. But her hope never died and now she felt like falling on the floor and mope. Yet, she also knew that if she did that she could endanger herself and the other dragons even more.
She didn't know most of the dragons she was freeing. They were from other dragon colonies. When she was done freeing them that same dragon with three-horns then asked her: "Are you Sveina?"
She looked at him and replied surprised: "Yes. But, how do you know me?"
The smaller winged reptilian then replied: "I'm Reinn. Anki's cell was just next to mine. The one that's empty now…He used to talk a lot about you. I guess that's what kept the guy going after the crap those bastards made him go through…"
Sveina couldn't help but to smile weakly because her mate never forgot about her like she never forgot about him.
"Thanks for telling me that…" she said softly. "But we can talk later. We need to get out of here. I left my children at a island not far from here. We'll pick them up and go to the east as far as we can!"
"What are you talking about Sveina? Why aren't we going back to our home?" said a red dragon with short muzzle just about Sveina's size called Sebbi. The two of them were friends a long time ago and when the Reinn mentioned her, he immediately remembered her. Sebbi had been caught during the assault seven years ago. He was one of the few survivors of the attack.
Her sadness was then replaced by anger as she remembered what her old 'friends' did to her sister: "Because those fools freed Red Death!"
"They WHAT?" shouted Sebbi.
"Keep your voice, down. Now follow me. I'll explain once we get out of here. But long story short, they think that wake up Red Death to attack the vikings will be a good idea."
Some of the dragons there didn't know who Red Death was. But those who did, immediately shared Sveina's feelings of getting away. They knew they couldn't trust that monstrous dragon.
As they approached the door, they heard from the outside: "DRAGONS ARE ATTACKING! EVERYBODY GET READY!"
They immediately froze in fear. They wondered if they had been discovered. However what they heard indicated something else. The sound of steps indicated that the humans were getting far away from them.
Sebbi then asked Sveina: "Did you bring reinforces along you?"
Sveina shook her head and replied: "No I came here alo…" but she stopped mid-sentence as she realized what was going on outside. She then stormed out leaving the other dragons behind.
'Please, gods, don't let it be them!' she thought as she rushed to see what was going on.
Earlier, Hiccup and his brothers and sisters had flown towards Berk looking for their mother. However, with the exception of the night fury, they didn't know a thing about the village.
As they flew, Hiccup then told his siblings: "We should land there. In the forest area. We can sneak into the village without being seen this way."
"Can't we just blast everything? It would be much faster. I doubt any human is fireproof." Karsi replied with a grin.
Hiccup didn't like the idea of killing everyone in their path: "If we do something like that, what do you think it's going it's going to happen? All humans we'll see us, our fireballs will be of any use in this rain and they easily outnumber us. Besides, if they find us, mom will try help us and the humans can hurt her in the process!"
This convinced Karsi to make a more subtle entrance. The other three deadly nadders were very worried their oldest brother would try do something stupid even if they manage to enter that place without being noticed.
They flew to the nearby forest, they walked slowly towards the village. They could spot some guards walking around with axes and swords. Galmann and Sigga swallowed dry seeing the sharp weapons.
Sveina told them stories about the human's weapons and their various shapes. She had told them to be extremely careful. Humans couldn't do that much damage with bare hands, but with weapons they can easily kill a dragon with hard scales. She wanted her children to avoid combat with humans by all means.
"So, where do we start looking?" Ranka asked.
Hiccup knew where exactly where to start looking. "Are you seeing that huge building in the center? There's where mom probably is."
Everyone looked at him weirdly. It didn't took long to Hiccup to realize why.
"How do you know that?" Galmann asked what his siblings also wanted to know.
Hiccup found himself once more in a very awkward situation. He tried the best he could to cover his tracks. "Weeelll, you're looking for some place where the humans keep the dragons, right? So it should be big. And that's the biggest place in this town."
The weredragon gave a relieved sigh noticing his siblings believed in his words. 'I wish I had this much luck with mom…' the night fury thought.
"Okay, now let's go there walking. This way we won't call much attention." Ranka said.
"It's not like they can spot us. I mean, I can't only notice Hiccup is here because of his green eyes, I can barely see you guys in this dark and this rain doesn't make it easy as well." Karsi said as they slowly walked in the shadows to avoid all humans
"But let's not push our luck. Let's go behind these building until we reach that one Hiccup pointed. Let's hope our mother is really there." Galmann said. He wanted to leave with his whole family as soon as possible. He also knew their mother would be furious at then for disobeying, but he would rather have her angry than don't have her at all.
Then they proceeded with their task in order to get to the arena. The floor was getting muddy and becoming a bit annoying to walk properly on it. The five dragons were walking between homes as quiet as possible.
However, Sigga's right foot got stuck in the mud. She used her strength to pull herself out of it, but she used too much strength and ended up slamming against a nearby home.
The other dragons were surprised as they turned to see their sister recovering from the impact. "I'm…sorry." She whimpered.
"Be careful, Sigga. Let's move before they find out about us!" Ranka scolded her trying to keep her voice as low as possible.
Before any of them could do something else, a tall viking and his wife came out of the house angrily demanding "Vragi, we told you to stop driking so late at night and disturbing us and…" The man didn't finish his sentence once he saw dragons next to their house.
The couple was about to shout to warn the rest of the village about them, but Karsi unleashed a fireball against them, knocking them away. The rain was able to minimize the damage, but the two were burned and knocked away.
"What are you doing, Karsi?" Hiccup tried to scold him not liking that he just attacked humans with fire at such close range.
"It's useless to keep low profile now, Hiccup. Everyone make a run for it to that place. Let's fly, It'll be faster!" Karsi replied not caring that all viking find about them anymore.
The other three deadly nadders quickly followed his brother. Hiccup stayed there looking at the couple screaming in pain with great sorrow. He wanted to apologize, but then a little girl to come out of the house looking for her parents only to find them lying on the ground next o a pair or glowing green eyes.
Before she even screamed there was the sound of a trumpet echoing through the village. The fireball Karsi unleashed had caught the attention of the vikings at the watchtowers.
'Oh, crap!' Hiccup thought as he rushed towards his family, who now where getting close of the arena.
"EVERYONE COME BACK!" Hiccup shouted at the top of his lungs to them. He knew that his siblings were unaware of how fast the vikings of Berk assembled during an invasion.
But it was too late. Soon the whole Berk was flooding with angry vikings carrying sharp weapons.
Hiccup flew as fast as he could towards his family when he saw one viking guard getting ready to throw his axe towards his siblings. Hiccup didn't think. He just acted.
The night fury unleashed a red and blue fireball that hit the man right on the face. Needless to say the attack was fatal to the human. However Hiccup didn't even look at him once he attacked. He was too worried about his family wellbeing. He saw them getting surrounded by several humans, who were yelling for the others to get the dragons.
"Stupid rain! I could set them all on fire if it wasn't for it!" karsi cursed out loud seeing if he could toast one human or two.
"We must go now!" Sigga pleaded to her family.
"Not without our mother!" Ranka said sternly thinking the same thing as Karsi.
Luckily for them, the wind was strong and the arrows were swooped away by the wind. However none of them noticed a certain viking with prosthesis for limbs approaching with a cannon he designed.
Gobber had developed this weapon from some stuff Hiccup had drawn several years ago and now he was going to test it on real dragons to see if can be used the way he wanted it to.
He positioned the cannon in favor of the wind, so it won't miss like the arrows and them lit it, protected the flame with his hand and when the cannon fired there were several ropes tied together like a web attached with several rocks. The projectile hit Galmann and tangled him, making him fall on the ground.
"It works!" The blacksmith cheered! As he loaded a second shot of it.
Karsi, Ranka and Sigga immediately landed to where their brother was and tried to free him, but it was a very big mistake, because now they were at range of the vikings sharp weaponry.
However, when a viking hurried screaming to slash Karsi with an axe, Sveina rushed from the arena and crushed the human against the mud. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? I TOLD YOU TO WAIT AT THAT ISLAND!" she yelled at her children at the top of her lungs infuriated that they threw themselves at such danger.
The other dragons inside of the arena were unsure of what to do. Many decided that this was their chance to escape and started to get out of the building to fly away. This, however, wasn't unnoticed by the humans who now had their attention divided and tried to kill the dragons leaving the arena.
"This is ridiculous!" Sebbi rushing towards Sveina to help her with her son. He was then followed by Reinn.
Sebbi managed to use a fireball at a viking, who defended himself with a shield. The man smiled as he lowered it only to be pierced in the jugular by one of Reinn's horns. The smaller dragon then pulled himself out and joined Sveina and her family. The blood being washds by the rain.
Karsi tried to burn the ropes, but they didn't burn at all. They didn't know that The material used for this rope was stolen from another viking tribe in an island called Lava Lout[1]. The vikings there were experts in making fireproof material, but they weren't exactly friends with the vikings of Berk.
So the dragons were desperately trying to undo the rope by biting it, but without much success.
Hiccup finally arrived and honestly didn't know what to do. He just breathed fire around so he could at least keep the vikings at bay while they freed his brother, however this didn't last long once he was hit by Gobber's invention second shot.
"Hiccup!" shouted Sigga.
Sveina desperate to get her childrena way form there told them: "Karsi, Sigga take Galmann away. Ranka help me with Hiccup. Sebbi, Reinn, please help us!"
The smaller-horned dragon smiled and said: "Worry not, I have a debt to pay to you."
'I can't believe I stuck with the suicide squad.' Sebbi thought to himself, but getting ready to do as he was told.
Hiccup struggled among the ropes, but it was futile. He then noticed the familiar face of Gobber getting ready to fire the cannon once more against them. He couldn't let this go on. He started to hyperventilate. 'Stop! Everyone, STOP!' the boy thought desperately. However, he was more concerned about his family well being than his own.
'Hiccup, don't do this!' Ormhildr shouted in his mind.
"DONE'T HURT THEM ANYMORE!" Hiccup shouted in human language for everyone's astonishment.
Astrid had sneaked in just in time to hear Hiccup's outburst. 'Oh crap…' She thought.
Gunnvaldr carried Unna with his back paws as he flew towards another dragon colony he knew. It was going to take a few hours to get there. He thought that he could hide Unna there and beg for the dragons there to offer them asylum, but he was afraid they would refuse them once they heard that Red Death was back. Or worse, try to give them back to Red Death in order to not be killed by the enormous dragon.
"Why are you helping me? Even if I get away my family will be eaten! At least I'll be reunited with them! Don't think for a second I'll ever forgive what you all are doing with us, you monsters." Unna hissed struggling against the boneknapper's hold.
The skeleton looking dragon was silent for a few seconds. 'Can't she realize I'm putting my neck at risk here?' But then he looked back at her and saw all her wounds. Then guilty struck him with full force. He was responsible for her current state.
He gave a deep breath as he tried to reason with her. "Your family isn't in captive, Unna. We lied to Red Death."
"What? Why? What makes you think I'll believe you're telling the truth now?" Unna said angrily, but with part of her really hoping for the dragon carrying her to be telling the truth.
"Your family managed to get away from the gronkles who went after them. The reason why we took you to Red Death sooner was because we wanted to make sure we at least reduce her anger if they can't capture them before she fulfills her part in the deal." He replied.
"This still doesn't answer why you are helping me!" she said with hostility, but now with a huge weight off her heart now that she knew her sister, nephews and nieces were alright.
"It's complicated…I was scared, alright? I didn't want to die. That's why I helped with their ludicrous plan! I don't want any of you to die, I…" he tried to defend himself.
After a brief silence, Unna asked him: "There are things worse than death! We were friends since we were just cubs, Gunnvaldr. What you did is beyond despicable. You betrayed my trust!"
The boneknapper didn't reply.
"You are horrible, a traitor, you're worse than Dagr. At least I knew I could expect something like that from that stupid old bastard!" she continued to attack with insults. She wanted to let her anger out of her chest. His betrayal was what hurt her the most.
After a few tears dripping from her muzzle, she was now realizing he never replied to her insults and didn't even threat to let her go. In her condition she would just die drowned in the sea.
She looked up and could see a sad expression in his face. Then she finally asked him: "You know they'll want you dead for what you did, right?"
The boneknapper closed his eyes for a while and then replied: "Yes…"
"Then why? Weren't you afraid of dying? Why now?" she demanded. It was like she didn't even knew him anymore. She hated this feeling.
"I…couldn't…You have no idea how many things crossed my mind at that moment. I even cogitated killing you, so you wouldn't have to suffer anymore at Red Death's hands. But I couldn't. In the end I couldn't let you die. I'm really sorry for all this. If I had been braver the two of us could have been with your family far away from all this madness. But I think I know how to fix everything." He replied with a solemn expression. But the last phrase was barely inaudible and Unna didn't hear it.
"Apologies won't fix anything! By the way, where are you taking me to?" she asked this time, but with less anger.
"I know just being sorry won't undo what I did…As for your question, I'm taking you to the neighbors. Do you remember there's another colony here? Both them and us were slaves of Red Death. I think they'll take you in and help take care of you." He said
"And when they come looking for me by the morning, they'll trash this place and kill everyone that is trying to protect me, I mean, that's if they don't sell me in order to save themselves." She said bitterly.
"You'll be safe. Red Death won't even know about the existence of this place when I'm done." He said.
Unna wanted to ask what was he talking about, but she was feeling too dizzy. The wounds made her too weak to keep awake. After a few moments she passed out. Gunnvaldr at first panicked and thought she had died, but he calmed down once he felt the heartbeats.
'I know what I did was unforgivable. But allow me to repair my mistake. I hope you and your family will be reunited once more.' He thought as he carried her to the other dragon colony.
Once he got there, he awake everyone by yelling: "Please, someone help me!" It didn't take long for several kinds of dragons to gather there.
"What is going on? What happened to her?" asked a quite big blue dragon with a long neck. He was the elder dragon of the island. He was called Yngvarr.
"You have to take care of her. She was mauled by vikings sailing nearby. I brought her here as soon as possible." Gunnvaldr lied through his teeth. It was actually convenient that Unna was unconscious. This lie made things much easier for him. Sure the dragons would panic once she wakes up and tells them the truth, but with some luck, his plan will work and nobody will have to worry about Red Death ever again.
"Poor thing. Let's carry her to a cave and treat her wounds and…where are you going?" Yngvarr asked to the boneknapper turning to fly away.
"I'm going to follow the ship before I completely lose the track of it. This way I can know where they live. I'm not crazy to get revenge without a good plan. You don't have to worry about me. I'll return once I find it. Just take good care of her and, please, tell her I'm sorry." Gunnvaldr said before flying away leaving a bunch of groggy dragons very confused.
The elder dragon thought he was just too angry with the humans and hoped he wouldn't do something foolish. He then ordered the order dragons to carry Unna to a cave and help her.
'I'm really sorry for everything I've done, Unna… But I hope this at least will make it up for everything.' said Gunnvaldr to himself as he flew towards another island quite far from the island where he had left Unna.
The boneknapper hoped he could get to Red Death before sunrise, so he had to be fast. He was flying to the island to…eat. No dragon has ever dared to do what he was about to do. After all that particular island was feared by both dragons and humans.
'I hope you enjoy eating me later, Red Death, because it'll be your last meal.' Gunnvaldr thought to himself.
End of chapter 36
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More author notes:
[1]I took that from the book How to twists a Dragon's tale.