hiccup had a bad feeling today, it all seemed to quiet with dagur and the rest of the berserkers on the ship everything was winding down around him or so it felt...
dagur left to go talk to hiccup and Oswald went to go talk to Alvin, the plan was for Oswald get Alvin drunk enough to tell him the truth and dagur was going to get hiccup to talk him and tell him the truth, Oswald brought his own bottle of whiskey to celebrate with his old friends but now it was the perfect bate to catch a conniving snake in the grass like Alvin, he was going to leave first so that it wouldn't look suspicious to any of the outcast watching around them, Oswald walked over to Alvin's hut, he knocked on the door expecting a smug Alvin the treacherous before him, he wasn't expecting a joyous laugh before the door swung open
" morning lad!, ready to- oh it's you Oswald?... " Oswald felt confused by Alvin's disappoint in seeing him, was he expecting someone else this early in the morning? Oswald cleared his throat and showed him the whiskey " I had this just laying around, so I thought way not you must be having such a hard time with the village and all? " alvin grunted and let him him " fine, but I can't have to much hiccup will get scared if I do " Oswald looked at confused before it hit him " do you drink often? " alvin look to be thinking about his answer before he looked genuinely surprised " n-no I haven't drank In awhile?... " alvin pulled up a chair for himself because looking back on the the last time he got good and drunk, it was months ago when he took over berk, he and his outcast partied, he hadn't had a drink Since, Oswald was already pouring Alvin and himself a drink, Oswald slid the drink over to Alvin, alvin took a deep breath before drinking it and felt like he had just broken a promise to hiccup but he was a grown man and hiccup would be fine with it...he hoped ...
hours had passed and Alvin was slowly getting drunk Oswald saw that Alvin was drunk enough to tell him what he wanted to know, what happened to berk, why was hiccup avoiding dagur like he had the plague and what was with the dragons?, Oswald looked at Alvin as he was in a cheery mood, slurring his words and talking about how much hiccup had grown from a wee lad to young lad so fast, Oswald dare call it fatherly, the way he talked about hiccup, that's when Oswald knew he had to go for it he needed answers, he took a deep breath, hoping he was drunk enough " so Alvin tell me about your victory over Berk " Alvin let out thundurus laugh, making Oswald flinch a bit at the unexpected outburst " it vasn't my vic-tory, Os-wa-wald it was hic-hic-hiccup's! " oswald looked at him oddly before he started again " on his tenth burthday he makes a plan for me to take 'ver berk and lock 'em all up, I was so proud! " oswald felt his jaw drop, did he just say hiccup was the one who wanted Alvin to take over berk!?, oswald gulped and kept going " so why would he ask you to do that?... " alvin looked upset, he glared at the glass and then at Oswald a bit " almighty stoick that fat was, beating 'em worse then bef'er!, did you 'now he left 'iccup on outcast island to die when he vas five!, five years old and he left him there, I 'rote him a letter, 'nd I said I was going to kill 'em so I could get my hammer back! 'nd he didn't come for the boy! " alvin got up and walked around angry at remembering stoick's awful treatment of his only child and Alvin's God child " he vas beating the poor lad and I'm the evil one?! " oswald felt his head spin, did he just say that stoick was beating hiccup and not Alvin!?
oswald took a step back, was stoick really beating hiccup... was he really going to let his only child and heir die for a war hammer!? oswald snap back to reality when he heard Alvin stop grumbling " did ya 'now he had Mark's and broken bones when he was t'ere, he was five with a fractured hip!, vhat can you say on that! " alvin throw up his arms and looked around him " and guess who remembered his burthday, certainly not Almighty stoick the fat I'll tell ya and did ya know toothless vas hiccups only friend 'ere, did you know people were throwing things at 'em and people were smacking 'em around! " Alvin was getting more enraged just remembering it " he came to outcast island with a black eye and bloody nose and deep red welts on his back! he didn't tell me who it vas because he was scared of stoick and his so called 'village'! " alvin got all huffy and sat back down for a another drink while a Shell shocked Oswald sat letting the information sink in, was hiccup really afraid of them, did he really ask Alvin for help in the only and ten year old could? oswald looked at Alvin and saw only the raw truth " so what happened after you took over?..." Oswald was bracing for whatever emotional outburst Alvin had, he looked calm and looked to be remembering it like it was yesterday " he was healing pretty good and he was talking more, he even seemed to be less pale but most of all he was smiling like he took down a bear, so proud of it, he 'new stoick vasn't going to 'urt 'em again " Alvin looked close at the bottle " I was the one who watched him grow up with the smithy and savage, we gave him a safe hide way from Berk and he gave me back my hammer and gave me new purpose, to see him grow into a good man with a good life, he didn't deserve to be 'urt like that by his village or his father " Alvin slurred and got up leaving to go sleep off the whiskey before dinner, it was mid day and Oswald could only thank the all father that he was good father to dagur and his other children, that they loved him and vice versa, he silently prayed that stoick receives the Justice he deserves for his awful deeds towards his only child and heir, oswald felt numb as he got up and left the hut to return to ship to think...
dagur left soon after his father to go find hiccup surly hiccup wasn't up that Early?, he walked to the Chief's hut and knocked on the door, a tired voice only replied in yawn " come in... " dagur walked in and saw hiccup in the kitchen eaten something dagur couldn't see with toothless clearly eating a bucket of cod " dagur why are you here so early?..." dagur stiffed his back and locked to door behind him " because I wanted to talk about Alvin and berk " hiccup arched his brow a bit but then shrugged his shoulders while eating
" ok, ask away " dagur sat down acrossed the table from him, he could see Hiccup was sleepy looking as the night fury purred by the table as it ate, dagur took a deep breath and looked at hiccup " well berk is doing good " hiccup smiled a bit " yea, Alvin helped with that " dagur looked at the night fury and then back at hiccup, he wanted to know what was going on in hiccups head, what did Alvin do to him, what happened? " yea Alvin seems to have turned a new leaf in life " hiccup seemed to smile a bit " yea and everything is so peaceful now " hiccup seemed so at ease while he talked to dagur, dagur took his time before replying to him " yes it does, but was it really Alvin that made everything so... peaceful? " hiccup gave an odd look to dagur and kept eating " yes and he's done a great job " hiccup felt a little off about dagur asking that question
" yes but what about stoick doesn't Alvin still hate him? " hiccup stared at him and ate some more " what about him, he's I'm jail now?, and just so you know Alvin isn't the only one to hate the fat bastard either " hiccup was starting to feel annoyed at dagurs questions " oh so when did he became a bastard, eh " dagur was starting to feel the same annoyance but not with Hiccup but at Alvin and what he had done to make hiccups say such a thing about his father, he must have done something to him!, hiccup got up to go to his room when dagur got up a bit faster this time and grabbed his shoulder and turned him around " what happened? " hiccup was confused his big green eyes looked up
at dagur with curiosity " what?..." dagur tightened his grip on hiccup when he felt him try and pull away, not this time dagur needed the truth " what happened, what did Alvin do to you hiccup " hiccup tried to get away again when dagur used his strength to keep hiccup from leaving his grip " what do you mean, dagur!? " dagur held him close " Alvin did something to you, know tell me brother, what did he do " hiccup tried to pull away from dagur's constructing hold on him " he didn't do anything dagur, I asked him to take over this sad pathetic excuse for tribe! " dagur didn't let go and kept a hold on him, he needed answers and he wasn't sure what hiccup would do if let him go
" why?, why did you have your tribes enemy take over, wouldn't they hate you to since your a hooligan as well!? " hiccup was fighting to get away now and near tears " no because all of Berk made it clear I wasn't part of their tribe!, they left me for dead dagur! " dagur watched as tears rolled down hiccups freckled cheeks as he began to sob, dagur didn't know what do to do, here his brother was sobbing and he was just standing there, watching it all play out, he heard hiccups quivering voice once again taking him out of his thoughts " they left me for dead... I was five, I was left on the ship and Alvin helped me, he wrote a letter to stoick saying he would kill me if he didn't get his war hammer back in one month, you know how long Alvin took care of me on outcast island..." dagur felt his throat start to dry, no stoick wouldn't do that to hiccup, not to his only child ... would he... hiccup wiped away his tears before talking again
" I was there for 5 mouth and Alvin and savage were more to a father to me then stoick ever was! " dagur held his brother close as he cried into him " oh, hiccup... why didn't you say anything? " hiccup choked back the urge to sob again and look directly into Dagur's green eyes
" because why would I tell people when they've ignored me all my life, even if someone hears you, you still feel like they can't hear you, it would be useless of me to tell anyone about the the way The village treated me or how stoick treated me...I felt so alone I didn't want to feel like my brother didn't hear my please for Mercy like everyone else.." hiccup felt dagur pull him into hug instead of a hold... dagur was hugging him and no one was yelling at him that he was soft or not a real viking and all that, in long time before Alvin hiccup felt safe in the hold of another's embrace, hiccup started to calm down before he pulls away and this time dagur allows him to pull away, no holding him still, no using his strength to hold him in place, just letting him pull away he smiles as toothless lays on the ground for a nap, hiccup gives an honest giggle and smiles at dagur " thanks for listening" dagur smile's back " no problem, brother " he watches as hiccup goes up to his room, dagur leaves to the ship to wait for his father
when the mid day sun hit dagur saw his father and the talked about what happened and saw no reason to help stoick but what they didn't know was their soldiers honestly did believe that stock was innocent and that Alvin had somehow brainwashed the boy, most of the men would wait till night fall and give weapons to stoick's loyal followers to help break stoick out and free Berk from Alvin's chains of lies and deceit, hours had passed when night fall came, the berserker soldier's snuck out with weapons for stoick's loyal followers, they wore long cloaked hoods that hid their facial features when one of them moved forward he could see a black goate and slightly crooked nose " thank you, so much for helping us get berk back from Alvin " one of the berserkers extended his hand to shake.
" of course, berk needs it rightful Chief back on the throne " the cloaked figures nodded and shook his hand, the berserkers went back to the ship and waited for tomorrow when they would leave , hopefully berk will be back with stoick in charge and Hiccup safe and away from Alvin, they could only hope...
spitelout removed his hood as soon as the berserkers left, many of the men and women rifles through the box looking at the weapons with amusement and Glee,
" did the lie work? " spitelout look at the female figure before that he sent to the berserker's ships, same little mole on her face " yes and they brought weapons " the girl moved forward and looked at them as she scoffed at them " this is what those brain dead berserkers gave us? " she turned up her nose and moved to spitelout
" he need better weapons " spitelout let out heavy sigh " no, we need what he can get " she turned up her nose once again and looked at him " fine,but I want an outcast head on my Mantle when this is over and we get stoick back " spitelout nodded his head and picked up an axe
" aye but we need to quiet before we strike them down " they all nodded and left into the night, back to their homes and families