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Gods! How I missed using the same thing to greet you! *puts hands on hips*
I'm sorry for taking a whole week to post but I have absolutely no time and a lot of will to write. Also this is an adaptation week (and the following one most likely) and I'm studying the best days and moments to write.
Sooo… that's it. Also, I really missed you guys and often found myself thinking about you and the fanfic.
Ok, just read it already. Here I am rambling when all you wanna do is read it.
PS: Thanks for all the wonderful follows, favorites and… REVIEWS! YOU ARE SO SWEET! and deadly…
Enjoy! XD
Let's start with the good part: The Edge had cells in its tunnels.
Let's continue with the not so good one: The cells were now caging Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, supposed leader of the Dragon Riders and Berk's heir.
The gang sat in the tunnels, in the biggest one to be more specific. Astrid's head rested against the rock cold wall but it was truly wandering around in memories.
Snotlout threw a rock against the wall in front of him and grabbed it before it fell to the ground, repeatedly. The twins were fighting with their thumbs while Fishlegs looked desperately for comfort in Meatlug. All the other dragons were laying besides their riders, skeptical because of the tension in the air and the approaching boats on the horizon.
This is… most of them because while they were next to their humans, Toothless was constantly struggling to get rid of the muzzle around his mouth and break from the cell separating him from his unconscious rider.
Yes. Unconscious.
It happens that the riders had tried to stop Hiccup from reaching the Edge. While Stormfly took hold of Toothless, Hookfang had grabbed Hiccup in his claws. Unfortunately he'd forgotten of Hiccup's cracked ribs and still healing arm so the boy ended up unconscious from the sudden pain.
First, they weren't trying to hurt him, the riders just wanted to transport him to the cells and make sure that what Astrid heard was a misunderstood.
Second, Toothless wasn't supposed to be caged but the dragon started acting extremely protective over Hiccup and would free him for sure.
Third, the Hunters were close now. Being unconscious for the rest of the afternoon and night, Hiccup gave the riders time to prepare the Edge even if only a bit. Unfortunately, their enemies would reach the base in a few hours.
Astrid's thoughts were interrupted by a low groan and she instantly got up. Her heart skipped a beat at the sight of Hiccup writhing in pain, his unconscious self, clutching the broken bones on his torso.
She couldn't help it. It was in her veins the worry about Hiccup. Being him the good or the bad one, Dragon Rider or Dragon Hunter. She just couldn't believe he had switched sides. After all, he'd been the one to end the 300 years' war because killing and hurting dragons was wrong. How could he have changed? But then again, the Dragon Hunters had probably tortured him so much that he ended up disrupting somehow.
The other riders shot to their feet and quickly gathered around the cell, Astrid however stayed behind fearing the truth yet to come.
Hiccup blinked several times and let a muffled scream of pain when he tried to sit against the cell bars. Wait- Cell bars?
At first he despaired, mainly because the last time he was in a cell it was everything but pleasant. "What?" He groaned, noticing his friends outside the bars. "You were supposed to be in Berk. Wha- Listen guys I don't want to go through that 'fake kidnapping' again."
"Of course you don't." Snotlout answered, his voice full of anger.
Hiccup looked at him, noticing the strange tone in his voice.
"Just like you don't want us here so you can be with your new friends." The Jorgenson declared.
"Wha- What new friends?" Hiccup asked looking to the side suddenly when a loud coo caught his attention. A few cells next to his, there was Toothless, his mouth restrained by a muzzle. "Toothless! What?" The boy shouted.
New word of the year for Hiccup: What?
"Don't start with your speeches and words of wisdom and excuses mister!" Ruffnut exploded. "You know very well who!"
"Who did that?" Hiccup demanded, literally jumping to his feet and falling against the bars of the cell at his side. All he could think of was Toothless.
"You did that!" Snotlout replied.
"What? No I didn't!" Hiccup yelled, he was done with being confused. He was done with that stupid pain. He was done with waking up in locked places!
"Yeah you did Hiccup! Or should I say…. Dragon Hunter?" Snotlout argued.
Hiccup blinked several times and supported his weight on one of the horizontal bars. It was kind of like the ones in the Stables but thinner, with less spaces (a person couldn't get out of it) and made of Gronckle Iron. "What?" He laughed, something he hadn't done in ages.
"We all new this day would come…" Tuffnut mumbled.
"Wait? Are you serious? Guys come one!" Hiccup tried when he realized it was NOT a joke.
Snotlout and Ruffnut were completely red of anger. Tuffnut seemed more worried with calming his sister. Fishlegs and Astrid apparently found the floor much more interesting.
Gods Astrid!, Hiccup though. What was she thinking now?
"I am NOT working for the Dragon Hunters guys! What gave you that idea?!" He tried again. They could only be joking! "Fishlegs! Come on!"
"A- Astrid heard you and Viggo. How could you Hiccup?" The chubby boy answered, not daring to look at his friend (er… ex-friend) in the face.
"Astrid?" Hiccup mumbled as if the name had suddenly become weird and dry in his mouth. "A-Astrid. You heard it all wrong!"
Astrid dared to look at him and almost choked on a sob when she saw those pleading, painful forest green eyes she loved so much. Those two shining green spheres were probably what she loved the most in the whole world. That and everything attached to them.
"Tell them you heard it wrong! Tell them!... Te-tell…. Me." Hiccup grabbed the bars of the cell.
"Tuffnut go check on the other invasores." She muttered dryly.
The male twin, for once, hurried to do as he was told.
Hiccup mouthed her words, focusing on a specific one. Other. Other…. She thinks of me as an enemy!
"Astrid!" He called. "I am NOT a Dragon Hunter! Listen guys, why would I work with the men who tortured me?"
"Oh so NOW you finally admitted they tortured you. Funny! Last time I- no wait!- Last time we all checked, you didn't want to tell us what happened! And do you know why it's funny Hiccup?" Snotlout started. "Because in the exact moment we find out what really happened, you come up with the torture excuse."
"I JUST DIDN'T WANT YOU GUYS TO GO THROUGHT THE SAME!" Hiccup answered through clenched teeth.
"By what? Telling us?" Fishlegs said.
"You- you don't understand…" Hiccup muttered, hiding his face in his hands with a tired sigh.
"Oh sooo pa-lease, LEADER. Include us, because you sure know how." Snotlout played.
"Snotlout, save me from your sarcasm." Hiccup replied.
"And why is that? You're too weak to handle it? Just like you were to tell us the truth or just finish our existence. No no…. maybe you were too weak to see Viggo killing us or selling us like slaves in THE WHATEVER MARKET?"
"Snotlout, I AM NOT WORKING FOR VIGGO! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO FOR YOU TO BELIEVE ME!?" Hiccup almost cried. He felt betrayed by his friends, how could they even think…. believe, that he was working with… arghh.
"Was that why you sent us to Berk?" Astrid asked with no expression. "Was that why you didn't want to be friends with me- with us anymore?"
Hiccup looked at her like a small Terrible Terror looking at a Titan Wing Deathsong.
"I asked you a question, Hiccup." She said.
"N…. No."
"Then why was it?" The blonde asked again.
"I- I huh…. I can't… I can't tell you. I… I don't want to." The Haddock muttered.
Suddenly, Tuffnut broke through the entrance of the tunnel, heaving untiringly.
"Hum… guys?" He started. "I think we should… it would be good to see all the destruction but… if we don't stop them now…" The male Thorston finished with a pass of his pointing finger on his own throat and then a shrug of shoulders. "It's just an idea thought. I still like the destruction part."
The gang started walking to their dragons but Hiccup stopped them.
"Wait! You- You have to let me go and help you!" He almost begged.
"You-" Snotlout started, walking over to Hiccup and pointing an accusatory finger at his chest. "You will stay right here!"
Hiccup yelped in pain from the rude movement of the other boy. The pain from his aching ribs filled every single inch of his chest and back.
"Snotlout!" Astrid involuntarily snapped when she heard Hiccup's yelp.
Snotlout looked at his cousin and Hiccup noticed a bit of guilt behind the anger in his eyes. "Sorry…" The Jorgenson muttered before walking to Hookfang and flying after the other riders to the sunlight outside.
Astrid was now the only one standing there.
Hiccup scratched the back of his neck and laughed nervously. This situation was the or one of the most unreal that had ever happened to him. Then again, he did have some kind of karma for bad situations…
Astrid walked towards his cell with a straight face.
"I- I can't believe this…" Hiccup muttered.
He watched as Astrid checked if his cell was properly locked and motioned to leave. However, Hiccup was faster and passing an arm through the bars, gently grabbed her wrist.
Astrid froze but didn't look at him.
"Please… I-" Hiccup started. "You know that's not the truth right?"
Astrid released her wrist from his grip with a sudden move.
" Astrid, you have to-"
"I'm not your friend anymore remember Hiccup?" She answered.
For a long moment the only sound in the air was Toothless trying to get to Hiccup (and the boy's heart shattering and falling at his feet).
"Ha… and I was going to ask…What about you? You believe me right?" He sarcastically asked the blonde. "But it's not worth it, is it?"
"All those times you….you had attacks… it was all fake? Everything we went through together, you- you faked it?" She asked, her blue eyes facing the ground, ignoring his previous question.
"Of course not! I- I'm not working with the Dragon Hunters! I promise! I would never hurt a dragon-" He said, stopping abruptly as memories filled his mind, especially a certain one in which his hands pushed a sword downwards. "I- I-"
"Your look says it all." The blonde answered running out of the place, she couldn't contain the sobs any longer.
"Astrid wait!" He tried, grabbing the bars of his cell but to no use. "It's suicide if you go! I- I can't let you go through… I-" By this moment, his knuckles were completely white.
"Why would you even care? We're stran-strangers now remember?" Astrid answered while mounting Stormfly in the tunnel next to that one; her voice full of grief, anger and cracks.
Hiccup rested his head against the bars of his cell.
He couldn't let his friends go through the same thing he went through. That's what Viggo wanted and what Hiccup'd been having nightmares with.
And even if they weren't captured… it was a suicidal mission. Facing a whole armada? Be captured or be killed.
And if there was someone who deserved it then it was him, not his friends who, even believing that he was part of the Dragon Hunters now, had been there with him when he needed them. They had tried their best to help him and Hiccup had treated them so bad…. all because he'd been too afraid.
Another crazy idea assaulted his mind and Hiccup looked to Toothless. All he had to do was to get out of there first.
If it's to be suicidal, then suicidal it shall be, he though.
Suicidal like… this chapter you see. A suicidal mission because I shall run for dear life from the mob of angry you's now.
I'm sorry for taking so much time but it really was an adaptation week and I'm studding the days to see when I have more time (or time at all) to write.
I don't apologize for the feels in the chapter tho.
Hehehe…. I better run now… or fly.
Next chapter will be here the sooner I can. See ya there! XD
