Chapter 8: My loved ones.
Astrid was racing to get to Dragons Edge "Come on girl" she said to Stormfly. The dragon recognized the urge in her riders voice. They reached Dragons Edge in record time, Astrid jumped of Stormfly and ran towards Hiccups hut searching for a small container with the antidote in it.
"Where is it" she yelled turning the place upside down. Stormfly saw the distress in her rider and started to help her. She smelled around the room and found a little piece of wall not right. She nudged Astrid and she looked towards the wall. Astrid understood what her dragon meant, she opened the little piece and saw a container with purple liquid in it.
"Let's go home" she ran up to Stormfly and hugged her dragon and jumped on her. They flew away gaining more and more speed to make sure that Hiccup has a fighting chance.
Back to Berk: "He's getting worse, Gothi help me". Stoick yelled, Gothi and Gobber came running in to see a young Viking pale as ice coughing up blood and a worried father with fear in his eyes. "Give him to me now!" Gobber said, he took Hiccup who was now struggling to breath and started to shake.
"We better hope that Astrid is coming back soon with the antidote because he won't survive long without it" Gobber said to Stoick.
Stoick looked broken, his only son and last family was on their deathbed while the lunatic who did this to his son was free sailing the oceans probably planning his new attack. Stoick got angrier and angrier when he thought about it, so angry that he didn't notice that Hiccup had woken up.
"Hey dad" Hiccup said with a broken voice, "Hey son" "Where's Astrid" Hiccup said while looking around. "She's on her way son, don't worry". Hiccup laughed a bit but started coughing full force and losing more blood. "Sorry dad, I screwed up" Hiccup said looking in pain "No son its not you're fault, you better remember that" Stoick said with a calming voice. Hiccup showed a smile before losing conscious again. "Rest easy son you'll need it" and with this Stoick left his sons side for the first time to get some air. Fishlegs covered for him and promised to alert him if Hiccup wakes up again.
It was at the end of the day when Astrid returned to Berk, She landed near Gothi's house. She ran into the door and saw that Fishlegs was siting next to Hiccup pale body. "I have the antidote can you make it work?" she asked Fishlegs, he nodded and stood up. Fishlegs took the antidote while Astrid was going to look for Stoick but she felt a hand against hers. She looked down and saw that Hiccup was awake but not opening his eyes. She laughed "I'm here so don't worry" Hiccup put a smile on his face and let his hand down letting his hand down.
Stoick returned seeing that Astrid had also returned "Do you have the antidote" he asked, Astrid nodded and turned towards Hiccup. Fishlegs walked towards them "The antidote is going to work but its going to be brutal, in the first few days he's going to be screaming in pain and it could kill him." Fishlegs voice gotten softer as he said the last part. "It could what" Stoick said with his voice as hard as a rock. "The antidote could kill him because of the injuries and blood loss he already had". Fishlegs answered. Astrid hadn't said a word while Fishlegs explained everything. Stoick looked towards her, he recognized her gaze and sighed, "Alright, give it to him" "Okay could you get him up, he needs to drink it" Fishlegs took the antidote and Stoick went to sit behind Hiccup to get him in a sitting position. Astrid watched as Hiccup swallowed the purple liquid. Hiccup laid back down again and started to shiver and he could barely breath. "What's happening?" Stoick yelled "The antidote is starting to work". Fishlegs said while looking terrified at his friend while Astrid just started to help Hiccup. The others were waiting outside, Fishlegs got outside and saw the others. He looked at them and explained it all. The riders were shocked when they heard the story. "But he's going to be okay right?" Snotloud asked "I don't know" Fishlegs answered and with this he sat down and started to wait for a sign that Hiccup is going to be okay.
To be continued at chapter 9: you got to be kidding me.
So basically I stayed up until 3 a.m in the morning trying to fix my computer and get this story on the site. So I hope you enjoy the chapter and until next time.