Conquered and Divided Chapter 2: Escape Route, a how to train your dragon fanfic

(2 Years later)

The day had been quiet, more quiet than usual. Usually the guard would have banged on the cages early morning, but they didn't. They would usual do this since they would have been interrogating them one by one late at night so they would only have a few hours of sleep on a cold hard floor so really it wasn't a sleep at all, but they didn't. Which made them, the berk prisoners, think what the hell was going on.

At the first sign of the door opening, everyone looked. but instead of seeing tons of guards coming in to give them slave work for the day, they saw one guard with a man in chains walk in. But this man looked familiar, through his cuts and bruises, he looks so familiar.

Astrid pulled herself up and looked through the bars of the cage, she knew this man, she knew him indeed.

" Dagur?"

(10 minutes earlier)

Astrid had woken up before the others, which felt really weird as she would have normally been woken up hours ago by the guards who would have probably had another slave task for them which usually starts at 5 in the morning and ends at mid night, every day for 2 years. 19 hours straight, with only 30 minute break for food and water, it was exhausting even for her and as much as she would hate to admit it, the exhaustion wasnt the only thing that was taking its toll on her. She had been without her son, her husband, her family for 2 years and it only got worse when she scratched another tally on the stone wall of the cage. 2 years ago today she had lost her son, and the depression was getting the best of her. She finally heard the others awake and of course the first to speak was snotlout.

" is it me or did we all just sleep in?"

" no we probably just woke up early, now go to sleep" ruff said from the side of him, hitting his ribs with her elbow and trying to get herself comfy on the rock beside her so she could try and get back to sleep.

" no he is right, its about 9 now and ive been up a hour. Its weird, up at 4:30 in the morning, everyday, for the past 2 years, why change now? Whats so special about today?" astrid stated throwing the sharp piece of rock she used to carve on the wall, on the floor.

" who knows, im just glad i got some sleep." valka mumbled as she started to wake up. Others around them all started to slowly wake up and mumble to eachother on why the guards haven't arrived yet.

As the voices got louder, they were all brought to a hault when the large lock on the metal door unlocked from the outside with a loud click echoing throughout the room. The whole room was silent and all eyes were on the door as it slowly opened and two male figures walked in, one was a guard as the footsteps were stong and steady, the other was some prisoner as he walked in head low, feet scuffing the floor as he walked, dragging the chain along the floor that were attached to his wrists and ankles.

But as the two walked further into the room the prisons face became clearer and clearer, astrid pulled herself up using the bars on the cage to balance her, sticking her head through the bars to get a better look. But she didnt need to look any further, she knew this man, by the way he walked, his hands and his feet, his hair and the side of his face. Even through the cuts and the bruises all over his face and body, he looks so familiar, she knew this man, he knew him indeed.

" Dagur?" the word slowly ecsaped her mouth, but was loud enough to be heard by dagur as he raised his face at the sound of his voice and shot a smirk at astrid before the guard threw him in the cell next to astrid, the one with valka. He unlocked his chains before walking out and locking the cage, and leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

Once they all knew the guard had complete gone, astrid ran to the side of the cage, placing her hands throught the bars and getting a hold of his shirt. Once she got a grip, she yanked him off the floor and too the bars where she could see him face to face.

" oh, looks like you still have that fire in your system" she said face pressed against the bars.

" what do you want dagur? Why are you here?" she demanded pulling his shirt making it rip even more from where the guards had ripped it before.

" oh relax milady, everything will be revealed in due time." he whispered. She looked at him eyes narrowing at the second before releasing her hand from his shirt.

" what did you say?" he didn't answer at first he just brushed himself off and sat up straight against the bars.

" i said relax"

" no. What did you call me? Only one person calls me that" she placed her side on the other side of the bars so she was facing dagur.

" well who do you think sent me?" not holding back his smirk back.

" hiccup" she whispered, but it was so quiet that all the other heard. And both valka and snolout shot up from their slouching position on the rocks behind them when they heard the name of their chief.

" hiccup?"

" chicken" ruffnut mumbled in her sleep, waking herself up to find all eyes on her.

" what? I dream about chicken okay. Its been 2 years of shit disguised as porridge, so i dream of chicken" she argued.

" and here is me dreaming of you" snolout siad placing an arm around her shoulder.

" whatever" hitting him again.

" would you two shut up about chicken. Dagur you better start explaining yourself cause id given up on hope 18 months ago.

" hiccups here, and we are breaking you out tonight" her eyes wide and ears open.

" wait my son is here? Where?" valka questioned. " not far, this massive boat is about ten miles off land. And on that land 20 miles east is our camp where hiccup is, his plan starts now with me coming on boarded to tell you this and will continue at 7 tonight when it gets dark. I mean we have been planning this for months, and fishlegs has mapped out this boat from bottom to top. And its amazing to hold rock walls on a boat that floats is impossible, until fishlegs figured out that there are water dragons holding it up. Any way, at 7 tonight thats when eret and tuff will do the signal, and we will get out of here. We will spilt up into small groups and get back to the camp, all we got to do is sit down and wait, there is more than one room of caged people so when we get out we need to hurry."

" whats the signal?" ruff asked.

" believe me you will know it when you see it" dagur shifted so that he now had his whole back facing the bars and he started to fumble through his pocket and pulled out a small wooden horse. He handed it through the bars to astrid, she looked at the small thing before taking it out of his hand and looking at it closely.

" what is it" looking at the carvings, and what looked like teeth markings.

" its your sons favourite toy, he used to bite it when he was younger." she brought the toy closer to her, looking at all the detail that was carved in but one bit stood out the three letters "HHH" on the bottom. Hiccup.

" okay, can i just say something. How do we know dagur is telling the truth, i mean in the past he has not been the best of allies" ruff said standing up from her place where she sat next to snotlout, pacing around her cell, cracking the stiff bones in her back and neck.

" Ruff! How can you say that, heather has been our friend since we were 16, dagur when we were 18. They are our friends ruff and i believe him." astrid argued her point.

" of course you believe him, he has you wrapped around his pinky finger with that wooden horse who is probably not even stoicks." ruff cracked another bone in her body.

" i believe him" snot said picking up a rock and playing with it between his hands. All eyes were on him, and he took his time before answering. " i believe him. One of the last things hiccup said to me is that the boats is heading towards dagur and heather. So i believe him." the room went quite and know one tried to argued with snolout, and dagur had a smile on his face for the rest of the day.

They waited till 7 like they were told, it was about 6:55 now when dagur was looking through his pocket, he pulled out some guard's keys and placed him on his lap, the clicking and banging noise the keys made, drew the attention of the others aand as soon as ruff saw the keys she started to accuse him some more.

" what the hell? You had them the whole time? What were you planning to do with them, taunt us. You have the keys to our cells and you only show them to us now?" she started to pace around the cell mumbling an argument with herself.

" relax blondie, hiccup gave me stricked orders that when i was captured i was supposed to swipe the keys off the guard and only use them after the signal. So keep your panties on okay"

" oh keep my panties on? Do you even know what the signal even is? Because i still dont trust you, i dont trust anyone who has not been in these caged wall for 2 god dam years -"

BANG! And thats when everything changed, from being stood up ruff was thrown back, snotlout, valka and dagur jumped to the grown and threw their hands over their heads, as did some other prisoners that were in other cages near the blast and astrid was thrown back on the rock wall she had been carving into for the last 2 years.

Ears were ringing and heads were banging, ruff was one of the first to speak "ouch" she brought her hand to her head, she felt a warm liquid coming from her head, she didnt even need to look to see what it is, but she did. Blood.

" ruff you okay?"snotlout shouted from where he lay. " yeah"

" mrs H, you okay?" dagur rushed over to valka who was bleeding from the head too.

" im okay, hun. Astrid, check on astrid." dagur got got up from where he was crouching and ran to the bars of the cage that seperated his cell from astrids. What he could see was astrid lay on the ground with her cheek all gashed from the rocks.

" astrid? astrid? For gods sake if you dont wake up, i will beat the caged wall down and bring you back to life. Hiccup gave me one job. Astrid!" she shifted, opening her eyes and slowly getting up. She turned to dagur looking at him, brain still not realising what happened.

" what was that?"

" that was the signal."

Dagur fiddled with the keys on the lock of his cell, as soon as the door was open he hurried over to astrid door and tried to find the right key to unlock it. Valka walked out slowly, taking in that she was walking out free and willingly. Dagur opened the door for astrid and rused to the others.

She didnt walk out at first, she lingered at the door for a while, while everyone eles rushed out, excited to be free. From the crowd of faces she saw two that she hadnt seen for months mulch and hilda (her old teacher).

They all gathered around, thinking about what to do next.

" so what now?" astrid said to dagur.

But a voice from behind answered for him. " now you come with us." eret said. And behind him stood heather, tuff and gobber. The four walked in a decided it was best if they all spilt up in groups, the first group to leave was tuff, who had ruff and about 6 others with him. Next was gobber who took valka and 5 others, that only left heather, eret and dagur. Dagur went next with mulch, snotlout and 4 others, heather with hilda and 7 others, and finally eret he waited a good five mintes before taking astrid and 4 others out of the blasted door and down the hall. When walking eret caught up to astrid and started to walk beside her.

" its good to see you, i felt quite honored when hiccup asked me to make sure your with me. He has really missed you." he said looking down at a woman he knew but was no longer herself. None of them did. But he thought a little news of her loved one.

" where is hiccup? i thought i would have seen him by now."

" he- err he is destracting the dragon"

" the dragon?"

" oh shit, bud that was close" this dragon was quick, it hides in the shadows, like it was one and shot fire as black as night but as hot as lava. Toothless flew up into the clouds as hiccupsd demands, they thought it would be best to fight their ememies in their strenghts not their weaknessess. The clouds had gathered together, they were forming a thunder cloud at it was ready to strike, but with thunder there was rain. The rain started off spitting at first, hiccup could feel the back of his exposed neck getting wetter.

" perfect, just perfect" his sacrasm muffled in the mask, but toothless heard it, and he werent a fan of rain too, but he was a lover of thunder anfd lighting, since he and hiccup knew, with the thunder going on around them, their ememy couldnt hear them coming.

" okay bud, lets see how angry we can make it" and he shot another plasma blast.

" okay everyone lets move" eret said, as they had just found the exit to the tunnels,and was coming out on deck, so far eret couldnt see much, so they went for it. They ran quickly but quitely, trying to keep their heads low, but as soon as they turned the next corner it was no longet quite.

The whole place was burning down, guards were running everywhere, prisoners were running everywhere, both jumping over the dead and the injured. Dragons were flying over their heads, this plan had just gone down hill.

" we need to split up" astrid shouted over the burning fire, the screaming and shouting and the splashing sound of rain coming down.

" what?" eret whipped around. " hiccup gave me orders to keep you safe"

" fine, their is six of us, them two go off, them two go off, and us two. If we split up we have a better chance of not getting caught than we are in a big group." she said coupling up the other four.

" fine, head for land, east about 20 miles." he ordered as they split up, leaving him and astrid running through the burning ship.

" so where we heading?" she asked jumping over burnt wood.

" skullcrusher is on the west wing of the boat, but we have to be quick since if we wait any longer i told him to fly back to the camp, and we will have to make our own way their." They started running faster but now they were jumping over bodies instead of wood. Eret has grabbed her wristed so that she would keep up, but suddenly she pulled back as she had see someone in the crowd of dead bodies. A woman, hilda. She was lay between two others who were in her group, all their neck slit open.

" she was in heathers group?" eret whispered behind her.

" heathers fine, she will always be fine" astrid said, shutting hildas eyes close.

" come on lets go" he grabbed her upper arm and pulled her away.

They started running to the west wing of the boat, but but the time they of there it was already burning.

" so what now?" he turned around to look at her but something over her shoulder eyes widening but the second. Astrid felt her body stiffen at the thought of the unknown " what is it?"

" we have to run, we have to run now!" grabbing her shoulder, and as she moved towards him she looked over her shoulder to see zipple back gas heading towards the burning floor.

" oh shit" they started to run for the edge, cause as soon as that gas hits the fire the whole boat would be in flames. They ran and jumped off the edge and as soon as they hit the water, the sky above them lit up in flames as the boat blew up. Shrapnel flew in the water scraping the skin of the two, but a piece of wood went straight through astrids right thigh.

As soon as the flames calmed down eret made his way up to the top, astrid came up to the top splashing and gasping for air. " eret ive been hit, i think there is a piece of wood stuck in my right thigh"

" okay, okay its not far till land, i'll fix it then" and they swam towards land.

Hiccup watched at the boat exploded and the shadow dragon retreated back to shadows, disappered from hiccups sight, he just sat there on toothless hovering in the clouds as the rain got thicker, he watched as the boat burned. praying his wife wasnt on it.