Hiccup couldn't sleep for the rest of the day. When he did he had nightmares of his father abusing him and Alvin torturing him. Every time Alvin came to get some answers out of the boy, he refused as always. Each time he refused to train the dragons he earned a whip to his back. As far as he's counted, it was now to be a little under twenty. He knew that the Outcasts were killing him and he's surprised that he hasn't died due to his blood loss. His leg wouldn't stop aching and to be honest, he couldn't feel the rest of his limb. It seems that his foot had been torn apart and he had a feeling he would never get it to heal.
The only hope he had left was that Johann would go back to Berk and tell Stoick. It would take a few days for him to come here with preparations, but what if he didn't care? What if he didn't care that his son was being held on a hostile island? If he found it to be true, he wouldn't care about betraying Berk. He would look at it more as a foreign island or even hostile in his own point of view. The only real friends he ever had been always away or in this case, ripped away from him. For all he knows, Toothless could be going through the same thing. Getting tortured by the guards only because he wouldn't betray Berk. Betray Stoick. Betray Gobber. But where was this all leading to anyway? Death or freedom? The only thing he could do was wait, wait in hope that freedom was in his future.
Finally he decided to try and break out. After being dragged back and forth a few times he managed to memorize most of the underground caves, and there's always one guard outside his cell. He took a large rock in his hands, hiding it behind him and yelled out to the guard as it passed by.
"Guard! Guard! I can't take it anymore! I'll tell Alvin whatever he wants, just please let me out of here!" He backed away from the metal bars he had leaned on to keep himself from failing, and limped back a step. The guard placed his sword to the side and opened the cage. Hiccup held the rock tighter and as the guard was about to grab him, he smashed the rock to his head twice, knocking him out cold. He almost fell over, but quickly took the sword and leaned at it as he picked up the keys and locked the metal lock. Limping, he used all the strength he could find and started to make his way out of there.
Hiccup had managed to find a way out of the prison, but as he climbed a mountain he saw how dead the island was. There were neither caves nor trees to be hiding behind. He looked behind him to see everything going perfectly fine back in the village of the outcasts, and took that as a queue to find a place to hide. They would eventually find out that he had escaped and by that time he would have to find a place to hide. If not they would find him and bring him back to the torture. Sometimes he would stop to rest his body that was actually doing fine due to the damage. He would also stop to just look back and think to himself; Is it really worth it? Is it really worth escaping the cell? Somehow they would find him and he would just get punished, but there was no way back. Now he had to find a way of surviving, at least until Johann showed up again.
Did he really make it back to Berk? That was the same question crowding his mind. He couldn't really think of anything else than that. His life depends on him.
Suddenly, a horn blew. Hiccup shrieked in surprise, and kept walking. Near the North side of the Island he found something that could look like a tunnel. Without bothering to think twice, he carefully climbed down and started to explore the part or the Island in hope to find himself a reptile with wings. Hopefully a one dark as night.
Just as the Berkian's spotted Outcast Island on the horizon, a horn blew. That made them wonder, did they see them already? Stoick found it hard to believe, but shrugged it off and moved over to the back of his ship. All the Vikings were looking at him, waiting for an order or something.
"Today we will get my son back. Dead or alive. We take the battle to them and keep them as a distraction while me and some other men search for him and his dragon. I will give you a signal when we find him and you make sure to clear our path for Outcasts," Stoick explained as everyone nodded and went back to preparations. Gobber followed Stoick to the other end of the ship and put a comforting hand on the chief's shoulder.
"Don't worry; Hiccup is stronger than you think. We will find him," Gobber assured him. He was right. Hiccup is a strong lad even if it doesn't look like it. That's why some Vikings should learn not to judge Vikings by their looks. It's everything on the inside that counts.