A/N: Uhhh This was tough to write and get out since it's directly from my head with no canon from the movie. Be kind in your reviews.

Chapter 06

Smothering Outcasts Part Two: Captured

Torch was the first one to speak first. "All right. Since the fog monster didn't get us, and we're not dead, Odin is letting us live soooo... let's head back to the ship." he suggested.

"I'm with the kid on that one." Snoutlout agreed readily.

Jack shrugged, his staff resting on his shoulders. "All right men, just grab whatever wood you can and let's head back."

The crew got ready to pack up.

Hiccup hollered in protest. "Wait, wait! We can't just leave, it took our weapons!"

"We got more of 'em on the ship."

Hiccup huffed irritably, gesturing with his hands furiously. "FINE!" he turned on his heels.

"Hey, hey!" Jack scowled, having up to here with the brunette. "can't you obey orders just this once? Come on, it's not that hard to do, 'grab and go' it's not a difficult task to follow."

Hiccup trudged and clambered over a slope, where he assumed by sense of direction, the fog monster had fleed to. "Whatever, I'm going after it," he huffed at the effort it took to climb. "and I'm gonna get my helmet back."

Snoutlout raised a brow. "It's just a damn helmet, no big whoop." he pointed out, looking a Jack. "c'mon Captain, tell him."

But Jack didn't say anything, just sighing, knowing why the damn helmet was so important. "Daggur, Snoutlout, Toothless, you're all comin' along." he trudged after the brunette. "Ruff, Torch, gather the supplies then tell Aster we'll be along."

Toothless was way ahead of him, already flying over to Hiccup.

"... And I was afraid you were going to say that..." Snoutlout made a face.

Daggur patted Snoutlout's back, "Well, whatever. 'm not letting the captain have the cutie all to himself." he grinned, nudging his companion before following Jack's lead.

"Really, am I the only one sane here?"

Torch snickered. "That would be a real question if you were sane in the first place," he said.

"HEY!"

"SNOUTLOUT, hurry it up!"

Snoutlout groaned. "Aye Captain..."

~o~

Hiccup kept focused on the search that it took Toothless bounding on top of him to realize some others had followed him. He didn't really give it much thought as to why and kept his eye for anything that could drop hints as to where the creature had taken off to. Jack was miffed that they, mostly he, didn't get so much as an acknowledgement from the Ambassador.

"A simple thank you would suffice." Jack said pointedly.

Hiccup grabbed a tree branch and used it as leverage to get over an elevated ledge. "I don't see the purpose of that yet. After all, what do I have to thank you for?"

"Damn it!" Jack groaned. "you're so ungrateful!"

Hiccup scoffed, rolling his eyes. He stopped and turned back. "Hah, look who's talking! Mr. 'I-almost-died-but-I'm-too-proud-to-give-a-proper-thank-you' Captain!"

"Ohhh greeaaaaat..." Snoutlout rolled his eyes. "and so it starts."

Daggur snickered. "Alriiiight, round two."

"I'm pretty sure it's more than two..."

"You know what, screw this, I should've just left you on this island, raised anchor and sailed off to retrieve the book!"

Hiccup grumbled, opening his mouth for a retort, then he pauses, letting Jack's words sink in. "Y-you're really going to retrieve the book?"

"No, we're trying to locate the kraken-YES I'M RETRIEVING THE BOOK!" Jack rolled his eyes. "what do you think I'm doing here, vacation? Damn it, it's bad enough I've got a freakin' deadline, now we have to pull up stops."

Hiccup managed to soften his expression. "Then you should've really gone ahead, you can just come back for me later. The book is more important, that's your quest."

"Don't be stupid," Jack frowned, muttering something under his breath. "... couldn't leave you... I won't..." a small blush bloomed across his pale cheeks.

Hiccup cocked his head. "What was that?"

Jack shook his head, trying to regain composure. "Uh, well, duh, couldn't leave you here. If something happened to you, well... you are Jamie's fi-fiance. When I get the book and return it, he'll live. But it won't... be happy for him if he... lost you," he looked at the ambassador. ...Like I lost you...

"Jack, that-" Hiccup smiled softly. "that was actually... kind of... nice of you to say."

Jack rubbed the back of his head shyly, smiling the same way. "Yeah, well, don't get used to it, Fishbone." he continued moving. "c'mon Hiccup, let's get going."

"Aye, aye Captain." Hiccup chuckled, following after him.

Daggur and Snoutlout stared, dumbfounded. Toothless had been playing with a wild terror before catching sight of Hiccup leaving, and he immediately went after the two. Daggur scolwed. "Oh, boo, nothing happened."

"Uhh, you sure about that?" Snoutlout raised a brow, because he was pretty sure Jack never looked shy until now. "Bah, whatever. Let's go."

~o~

While they continued their search, Jack and Hiccup begun talking. Like, actually talking to each other, not bantering or arguing. Toothless kept pace with them until he decided humans were just too slow and went on ahead on the search. Jack told Hiccup about his crew mates, how they joined in as sailors of the North Wind, that he saved their necks and in turn they stuck with him

Gobber was attacked by a dragon, the reason he lost his leg and hand, and if it wasn't for Jack, he would've lost his life and whole body. Thanks to him, Jack managed to build his own ship and hightailed out of Burgess in the first place.

The twins were always meddling about their town, causing mass destruction everywhere they go, burning buildings to the ground to the point that they were banished from their hometown and stumbled upon Jack who took them in and help their mass destruction problem productively; they would destruct enemy hideouts.

Torch was an abandoned toddler left in a cargo crate that Jack, Gobber, and the twins evidently stole with some others for food. After the initial shock, Jack had the ship docked to the nearest town so they can trade their stolen goods for baby necessities besides food. The others argued that they could've left him in an orphanage, but Jack refused, saying he couldn't be certain if they really will take care of Torch or just abuse him later.

Sanderson was pretty much homeless, because of his lack of speech, no one wanted to hire him for anything. In turned out though, the guy could hold on his own pretty well, and a single punch can put a guy to sleep. He found a home in Jack's crew after saving Torch from some thugs when he got separated from Jack's crew.

Aster, on the other hand, had it good going on at his hometown. But one day, his name was stained because the town elder said he forgot to lock the storagehouse and eggs and half the town's food supply were stolen, but Aster had been sure he locked it. Still, his reputation went crumbling. Nobody believed in him anymore. When they met, Jack felt for the guy and offered to help him clear his name. Even when they did though and proved that it was actually the town elder who was the taking them, Aster was banished for treason. So Jack just offered him a place in his crew.

"And Snoutlout and Daggur..." Jack trailed off.

Snoutlout interrupted. "No, no, no! Do not even go there!" he grumbled. "we put the past behind already!"

"Come on guys, I told the others'." Jack raised a brow. "it wasn't even that bad as the twins'."

Daggur shook his head, "not our fault they're not here now to shut you up, so you better can it." he glared.

"Fine, fine. I won't say anything," Jack rolled his eyes.

They begun walking faster. "So what is it then?" Hiccup asked.

"Convicts and deliquent. Got thrown in the slammer, got them out when Aster and Sandy sprung me." Jack shrugged nonchalantly.

Hiccup chuckled lightly.

"So your turn," Jack urged. "what's it like being an ambassador?"

Hiccup sighed, running a hand through his hair. "Basically, it was like living under dad's shadow and trying to live up to expectations. And he wasn't all for the engagement exactly, but Jamie was the prince, it'd look bad if he refused." he said, and Jack flinched a bit but the brunette didn't notice it. "at one point, he blamed me for seducing Jamie, if you can believe, like I be seductive if my life depended on it." he pouted cutely.

"Uhh, huh," Jack swallowed. "I think you could," he muttered.

"Excuse me?"

"Nothing!"

Snoutlout and Daggur snickered.

"Anyway," Hiccup kept looking at him weirdly until he just let it drop. "he's over it now. And I guess we're okay, because he did give me the helmet as an apology. It was always an honor for Berkians when they first receive their helmet, and I got it before I came of age. I could do without dad mentioning it being mom's breast plate though."

Jack grimaced, remembering the trick Hiccup played on him. "Yeah, definitely better off without that piece of information."

"But see, that's why I can't lose it. Not only will dad flip his lid, but it's the only thing I have of mom's, dad didn't even tell me how she died." Hiccup frowned, looking down. "I never even met her."

Jack patted his back. "Then find it we shall," he smiled, pointedly forgetting to say meaningless things such as I'm sorry to hear that... "so let's catch up with Toothless and speed up with this."

"Right, thanks Jack." Hiccup smiled gratefully. Jack grinned, his face almost splitting in half. "What is it this time?"

"You finally thanked me."

Hiccup rolled his eyes. "Yeah, don't let it get to your head."

They got over to a some cliff and saw Toothless bouncing up and down by a cave mouth. They decided to enter it. "Here for ten minutes, Aster said. Leave you behind if you get lost, Aster said." Snoutlout muttered.

As they went furthur, they found themselves in a room that looked like there were bunch of metals forged together, forming an actual room, make a couple of boulders near each other into a throne.

Daggur whistled. "Compliments to the designer."

Jack wandered about, touching some furnitures and frosting them up because he was basically bored. Daggur made a face, picking up a plate that looked like it had an image of a yak's ass. Snoutlout leaned over, just as put off by the image when Daggur smirked and smacked the plate to Snoutlout's face just for the fun of it. Toothless wandered back out, bored. Hiccup examined the cave with wide eyes, appreciating how the place looked but somehow there was a sinister air to it. His eyes fell on something,

"My helmet!"

"Awesome, grab it and let's get out of here." Snoutlout said. "I don't like this place."

Suddenly, they heard a dragon cry out. "Toothless!"

"Come on!" Everyone rushed towards the sound, going back downhill. As soon as they got overhead, they found Toothless tangled up in a mesh. Before they could react to help him, Hiccup yelped when he was pinned down from behind. "Agh!" he grunted.

"HICCUP!" Jack turned back when he was bear-grabbed from behind, and lifted off his feet. "Hey, hey! Put me down!" he hissed, seeing Snoutlout and Daggur being tied up from the corner of his eyes.

Toothless snarled, struggling, breathing out a plasma blast and launching back to the skies. He tried going back in to help the othersw, but mesh nets were blasted towards him. He managed to dodge them until Jack finally yelled for him to leave.

"Get away, Toothless! Get Aster!" he grunted.

Toothless understood and took off.

Hiccup continued struggling as he was brought to his feet, an arm twisting painfully behind his back. He noticed large men in armors were their attackers, and they were somehow very familiar to him brought to Jack, Daggur and Snoutlout who were pushed down to their knees roughly.

"Well, well, well, what da we have here?" A large man approached the four captives, but he got directly into Hiccup's face, grabbing the ambassador's chin roughly. Jack made an animal noise at the back of his throat. Hiccup gasped when the hoodie fell off, revealing the man's face. "if it isn't Stoick's runt? All grown, I see."

"ALVIN?"

A/N: Why do I feel like this was too short? Maybe cause it was...

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