Hey everyone! I'm back and with a chapter! This chapter is kinda short but still important, so with that said let's get right into the chapter!
Toothless stood there shocked as both Stoick and Valka looked down sad and disappointed in themselves.
"We should have told you earlier, but...we didn't know how you would react..." Valka said quietly. Toothless threw his arms into the air.
"Well, how did you THINK I would react to finding out that my parents are alive?" Toothless asked sarcastically.
The half-dragon sighed and looked around the absolutely huge place, all of the half-dragons below staring at him in curiosity.
"Where did you find all of them?" Toothless asked while gesturing to the other half-dragons, and the two looked down.
"We rescued them from Raiders and other...dangerous things in the wastes. The condition used to be rare but the radiation seems to have...increased the odds of it happening by half," Stoick explained slowly. Toothless nodded while thinking.
"So...why am I here? I get it's GREAT and all to see your long-missing son and have a reunion...but why? I was kinda busy trying to save Hiccup, you know, your other son and my biological brother" Toothless remarked sarcastically.
"W-we had to save you from the radiation storm, if not you would have died..." Valka said weakly. Toothless rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, get that. But why take me here and lock me up in a room? I get the not telling me thing a tiny bit, but why lock me up?" Toothless asked, confused and curious.
Stoick scratched the back of his own head with a nervous lock.
"Well, we know how much of a… temper you get when people get in your way… and we didn't want that temper aimed at us by telling you that you shouldn't go after Hiccup..." Stoick said quietly. Toothless glared.
HARD.
"And. Why. NOT?" Toothless asked quietly with a subtle tone of anger in his voice.
"E-Even we can't stop the Grimborns, they have too much power and too strong of control over their slaves and soldiers for even us to stop..." Valka answered. Toothless' knuckles went white.
"So I'm just supposed to sit around and watch the world burn while my brother is possibly killed?" Toothless asked angrily. The two of them sighed.
"We're sorry, but...there's nothing we can do...Viggo and Ryker are just...too powerful" Stoick whispered gently. Toothless fumed by kicking the guardrail with his scaled foot.
"Then what can I do?! Is there a way to even get powerful enough to rescue him?!" Toothless asked angrily while glaring at them.
Stoick and Valka looked at each other and nodded, before turning towards Toothless.
"We may have a way, but it requires a few things...come," Valka told Toothless before they ran off down the catwalk and to a huge steel door.
Toothless followed confused, curious, and worried. And above all, he hoped Hiccup was still alive...somewhere.
Hiccup grunted as his burnt and bruised hands carefully wrapped leather around the handle of an iron sword.
A guard came by his station and scoffed before hiting him in the back with a whip, causing the young man to almost scream but hold it back.
"Work faster you maggot! We need to get these swords finished for the army and for trading...so, PUT YOUR BACKS INTO IT!" The guard yelled and everyone nodded.
Hiccup just continued carefully staring at the sword as he worked on it, hoping he could wake up back at the base or even back in the Bunker to find all of this just a bad dream.
He continued working for hours, just thinking about freedom and Toothless.
When the bell rang indicating that he got his annual thirty-minute break, he nearly ran to the 'break' room in relief but he took a deep breath and walked...
The last time he ran, he remembered watching as he and all the other slaves got punished for such a small thing.
Once in the 'break' room, he sat down with all the other slaves as half a piece of moldy bread was given to them as their only meal.
"Eat up, maggots," The guard said before leaving the room and locking the door behind him.
Everyone ate in silence as the mechanical clock on the wall counted down to when they would start working again.
"Guys, have you figured out the plan?" Hiccup whispered in a low voice and all of the others nodded.
"I-It doesn't mean we like it, w-what if the guards..." Fishlegs began in a scared voice and Hiccup shook his head.
"No, they won't find out because we won't LET them find out. As soon as all the pieces fall into line...we strike and escape" Hiccup told them and all of them nodded.
They waited for the perfect opportunity, as since there was only one guard keeping an eye on all of them at once, they could easily take him down if given the right chance and luck.
And then the opportunity presented itself; the guard turned away from the left side of the production room and to the right side.
Hiccup finished up a sword and quickly rushed it to Astrid, who banged it over the head of the guard.
The guard hit the ground with a thud, unconscious.
"Alright guys, we need to get to the control room and open the exterior gate, then its a straight ticket out of here," Hiccup recounted the plan and Fishlegs was curious.
"Where will we go after that?" Fishlegs asked and Hiccup smirked.
"A little base my brother and I set up, he should be there I hope...and if not we'll find him after we get there and get safe" Hiccup stated and everyone nodded.
Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs and Heather all made their way through the halls of the huge base, avoid the guards at every turn and possible chance they had.
They eventually made it to the control room and found a guard and Ryker managing a few basic gear and pulley based systems.
Hiccup and Astrid used blunt objects to hit the two over the head, knocking them out.
Hiccup grabbed his sword from Ryker's holster, smirked while Ryker groaned in his sleep.
"Think I would let you keep my sword? Nope! Sorry, this is a present from my brother and I will not let you keep it" Hiccup mumbled sarcastically as Fishlegs quickly found the gate opening mechanism.
They heard the gate start opening and alarms blaring, they quickly made their way back to the other slaves and exited the huge complex by walking on a catwalk above the entire thing.
The gate was right in front of them, promising freedom and exit into the Wasteland. They were so close...just a tiny bit farther...
But they never made it as tons and tons of soldiers and guards came out from doors and guard posts, quickly subduing them and taking their weapons.
Hiccup tried to fight back against them, but he was quickly overpowered even with his sword.
Viggo approached with a pissed off Ryker, who looked like he was tempted to snap Hiccup's neck right their and then.
"We need more guards on the factory area, and more in the control room so this NEVER happens again. So, what punishment are you thinking of for the slaves?" Viggo asked Ryker, who snarled in Hiccup's direction.
"I was thinking we should whip them, then pour hot burning liquid on their wounds before whipping them again" Ryker answered coldly, and Viggo nodded before walking off.
"See to it then," Viggo told him as he left, and Ryker smirked in Hiccup's direction as Hiccup knew his fate was sealed.
After the whipping was finished, Hiccup was given another dirty torn shirt to replace his old one.
The boy was thrown into the slave cages with a shout of anger, the cage door shutting and locking behind him.
Hiccup knew now that he couldn't escape, but maybe a certain someone could rescue him, all it would take was time and some directions.
Hiccup quickly thought up the plans for a makeshift radio that could communicate with Dawn, who was still at the base and defending it.
He knew he would need some parts for the radio, and that once it had transmitted that Ryker or Viggo would find out and punish him.
But Toothless was gonna need an inside report of this base before he charged in at full steam, and who better to deliver that information than him?
So Hiccup waited, hoping beyond hope that he would have the perfect chances to get and assemble the parts for a radio.
"Goodnight, brother. Wherever you are" Hiccup mumbled before curling up on the cold iron floor.
Meanwhile, over hundreds of miles away, the two parents and Toothless were walking down a stone hallway.
"So, explain this to me again just so I understand, there is this weird magical liquid that will give me the ability to be like Thor from the Thor movies, all controlling lightning, and stuff," Toothless asked and Valka shrugged.
"That's well...that's the basic simplified version. This liquid will unlock your true biological potential, allowing you to do much more than just control and create lightning...you might even be able to go full dragon" Valka explained and Stoick interjected into the conversation.
"It also means that you will have to pass three trials to get it, and once you've got the liquid and its given you these powers, that makes you the King of all half-dragon kind" Stoick explained and Toothless was majorly confused.
"Wait? Why do I have to do three trials for it? Can't you just give it to me?" Toothless asked and Stoick sighed.
"We can't because it's not ours to give, the liquid and the three trials are all done by an ancient half-dragon, he's older then Valka and I put together" Stoick explained as they entered a huge cavern.
An old man approached them, he had grey eyes and his scales were a light gray instead of the black of Toothless' scales.
The man was using a cane, and he was definitely very old considering he was wearing dirty worn clothes from over two hundred years ago.
"Ah, young half-dragon, I have been awaiting your arrival since the bombs dropped," The old man remarked fondly and Stoick shrugged.
"Of course you have," Stoick remarked as Toothless approached the old man carefully.
"So, what do I have to do to earn this liquid?" Toothless asked and the old man had a question.
"Why do you want the liquid of the Gods?" The old man asked carefully. Toothless took in a deep breath.
"I want to save my brother" Toothless stated. The old man was shocked and curious.
"Funny, I can tell you're telling the truth with no other motives. Most people usually just want the liquid for power or money or strength" The old man remarked as he stared into Toothless' green eyes.
"Ok...so...what are the trials?" Toothless asked and the old man smiled.
"The first trial is the trial of fire, to see if you can make it through the test using your fire alone. The second trial is the trial of endurance, to test how far you will push yourself. And the third trial is the trial of sacrifice, where you must give up something to win" The old man explained.
Toothless sighed and stretched, his body getting ready for the trials of a lifetime. He walked over to the door the old man was pointing at and opened it.
"See you guys on the other side...I guess" Toothless told them and walked through the door. Even if he didn't trust any of them he still wanted his brother back and would do ANYTHING.
Toothless entered the chamber to find around thirty targets all flying throughout the room on pulleys and gear mechanisms.
"This test is to see if you can hit each and every single target BEFORE the ceiling crushes you to a pulp," The old man told him from behind a reinforced glass window.
The ceiling suddenly started lowering at a slow speed, and Toothless got to work shooting plasma blasts at each target.
Eventually, he ran out of shots and found himself trying to breath fire when he couldn't. All the while the ceiling was getting closer and closer to his head with every second.
That's when Toothless spotted something in the corner, hidden but not hidden well enough. He grabbed it and realized it was a bottle containing some sorta liquid.
"Can't hurt to give this a shot...well actually, it could hurt a lot but the point still stands" Toothless mumbled and then quickly gulped down the liquid.
And then just like that, he felt his shot limit reset and he quickly shot the last few targets into nothing but wood splinters just as the ceiling touched his head.
"Good, most people never notice the bottle, you may just win..." The old man said and a door at the back of the room opened, leading into the trial of endurance.
"Oh great, this is gonna be fun" Toothless mumbled sarcastically and went through the door, which closed behind him.
Sorry for such the short chapter, but I promise the next two will be EXTRA long and detailed for you guys.
With that said, this is JustANormalHTTYDFan, over and out.