It's me! It's a new chapter! More feels! Yay!
So you can expect two more chapter after this one. Oh I'm so mean to you…. Why? Why am I like this?
I know I say this every time I post a new chapter but pls don't kill me!
Enjoy chapter 13 XD
The sea, the sky, the wind, the forests were not going to end in about 10 hours.
But her world was. Astrid's world was going to fall apart.
The dragons soared over the endless sea at full speed, still it wasn't enough. The riders'd been flying for about 8 hours, which meant that Hiccup had an estimation of half a day left to live.
That half day was the time they needed to reach Remorse Island and hope that Grumpy had by now freed itself from the cavern Hiccup and Toothless caged him in. They hoped the Grey Remorse to be home by now.
The sun'd disappeared long ago and the full moon above them indicated midnight.
Hiccup slowly opened his eyes and found himself still surrounded by Astrid's arms.
His ears finally caught up with his eyes and his audition caught his friends' voices.
"… and Viggo might attack the Edge" said Fishlegs, his voice above a whisper.
"That's true. We still don't know what he's planning out but it sure won't be pretty." Said Snotlout his voice like a whisper too.
Hiccup waited until another attack of pain vanished for mere seconds and then decided to join the conversation. "Actu-actually I-I-I thi-think I know what V-V-Viggo's up t-to-to.
The riders looked at Hiccup suddenly, not expecting him to even be awake. Astrid swallowed a Hiccup! You're awake!
"Really?" She asked, relieved with the fact that he was still coherent enough to think. He was getting paler if that was possible and the white light of the moon made it even worse. He was getting colder and his forehead hotter with the rising fever. He was also passing out more often, the periods of time Hiccup was awake were getting shorter.
More pain hit him and Hiccup had to bite his tongue to hold back a scream. He also failed. "Ahhh…" He felt Astrid hugging him tighter and an involuntary tear rolling down his cheek. Not even Fishleg's medicine could calm his pain by now. "Yeah… I-I d-do-I…" he mumbled. "He-he's goin' to-ahh- attack the the Edge whi-while we're go-gone. F-for the Drag-dragon Eye. We-we've gotta go ba-back."
"What? No way!" Snotlout yelled.
"That- that's exa-exactly wha- he wan-wants. You ei-either g-go sa-save m' or the the Dr-drag-dragon Eye. And h-he kno-knows you'll cho-choose the firs-first one."
"What? That doesn't even make any sense! That's not a plan!" Snotlout complained.
" He wan-wants to to k-kill on of of us." The riders gasped even though they weren't that surprised.
"Oh oh oh and who's that one of us?" Fishlegs cried.
"Me." Hiccup answered.
"You?" Astrid asked more worried than ever. Well out of everyone in their group Hiccup was always the enemies' favorite target. Maybe because he was the leader, maybe because of his sassy comebacks and his natural talent to drive people mad, maybe because he was the heir of Berk or maybe just because he was like a magnet to situations like those. She felt the huge necessity to punch something, especially if that something was Viggo's face. There Hiccup was, lying on her arms, facing a slow and painful death and this stupid maniac still wanted to kill him!
"And how is he going to do that? Because he won't even lay eyes on you if it depends on me. Not that… I'm worried…" said Snotlout.
"He al-alre-already did- did." Hiccup said, closing his eyes to try to forget the pain, a constant pounding in which every new round was worse than the previous one. That's also when Hiccup realized that he was not wearing his prosthetic. His friends must've left it at the Edge because if attached to his leg it would sure be much more painful.
"What are you saying Hiccup? Fishlegs wondered.
Hiccup sucked in a deep breath "Thin-think'bout it. Wha-what was he do-doin' at-at tha-that island-d? He knew I wa-was go-goin' after you guy-guys. Catch-catching you wa-was all pa-p-part of the pla-plan." He swallowed thickly and Astrid removed his hair from his forehead again. Oh no. He's really hot. He's fever has never been this high… she though. "He-he knew we wou-would t-tr-t-try to to release the the Gre-Grey Remorse-se. Viggo ga-gave m' the riddle him-himself. The the riddle to to f-find the Drag-Dragon Eye..."
"He needed time to prepare that part of the plan. If he and his Hunters'd prepared that part before you and the twins arrived, you'd understand the major trap it was. They used us to lure you in and the Grey Remorse to be their weapon." Fishlegs concluded Hiccup's thoughts. "But what if we didn't find out the cure and we were still at the Edge? The Dragon Eye would be guarded then!"
"Yes but one way or another Hiccup'd be dead. If we'd stayed there Hiccup would die and leave us without a leader. That and loosing him would end our determination and leave us too wick to fight. Viggo would then take his whole armada to the Edge and attack us. We wouldn't stand a chance." Astrid explained.
"So there's probably a whole fleet of Dragon Hunters guarding Remorse Island to stop us from saving Hiccup." Snotlout concluded.
"And they probably have a ship or two looking for the Dragon Eye back at the Edge. I hope and believe that Toothless is able to protect our base because I am not turning around and giving up on Hiccup for the Dragon Eye!" Astrid declared.
The other riders agreed. "I hid it in the Clubhouse. We were in a rush so I hope that's enough…" Fishlegs mumbled.
Hiccup looked at Astrid incapable of hearing the last parts of the talk. Why were they all whispering. "Why- why're ya whisper-whispering?" He mumbled, his vison becoming blurry as 'someone' stabbed his leg again.
Astrid looked at him. "We're not whispering Hiccup." She told him, realizing something after that. "Wait! Are you mishearing? Hiccup? Hiccup!" Hiccup however didn't even notice Astrid answering him as more hallucinations of the Red Death welcomed him to his now-common state: unconsciousness.
"Hiccup? Astrid called again, noticing his eyelids closed again. Dam! Now I really want to kill Viggo and Ryker and their bunch of stupid Dragon Hunters!
"Hum, Astrid… that' not good. I've told you I don't really know much about this particular type of problems but I know one thing for sure. We have got to hurry up. He's dying." Fishlegs told her, his voice shaky.
"Yeah, but he's been dying for almost 3 days Fishlegs." Ruffnut told him. She and her brother had been really quite and sad since they understood it was all very serious. They'd been so quiet that the other riders often forgot about their presence, something that never happened with the twins.
" Yeah, tell us something new…" Tuffnut mumbled.
" I know but… I mean… we're really running out of time. He's starting to leave us… I can't be more specific…" Fishlegs cried.
Astrid felt the huge necessity to vomit after hearing that. "We need to go faster come on!".
Toothless perked his head up as a "Aha!" came from outside.
After looking to the horizon for hours the Night Fury decided to go back to his and Hiccup's hut. That's what he did. Being there, in their hut reminded the dragon even more of his rider. Oh he wished that somehow he could fly on his own to follow the riders' trail, find them and that way be there to protect his buddy.
The last days'd been horrible. Seeing Hiccup the way he saw was the worst thing Toothless could face. He liked Hiccup so much. His human was special. Toothless knew he could always rely on Hiccup, just like Hiccup knew he could always rely on Hiccup. Their bond'd been growing over the years, becoming stronger and stronger and if the Night Fury didn't know how to live without his buddy in past, than he couldn't even imagine loosing Hiccup now.
These were the thoughts the Night Fury fell asleep with and now he'd awaken with voices outside. Could they be back by now? Since his question wasn't going to answer itself Toothless jumped from his bed and raced outside.
That was NOT what he wanted to see. Several men, 15 perhaps walked outside. Toothless recognized them immediately. Dragon Hunters! Oh he hated them so much. They'd hurt Hiccup before and, besides if his master didn't trust them then Toothless didn't either.
The black dragon hid behind the hut he'd just left, in a way that he could spy on their intruders. The men were looking for something but stopped when one of them shouted "Found it! Let's get out of here!" Whatever that human'd said made the other run in his direction. Toothless started following them when he heard footsteps next to him.
A Dragon Hunter froze with the look Toothless gave him and before the dragon had the opportunity to do something the man started screaming. "Night Fury!"
That was not good…. Toothless left his hiding place, revealing himself to the soldiers. That's when he saw what one of them held in his hand: the cilindrical glowing thing his rider and his friends often called the Dragon Eye. Ohh they were not leaving with that.
Half of the men tried to take Toothless down while the other half ran away with the Dragon Eye. Toothless shot a few plasma blasts and knocked some Hunters with a perfect tail kick.
The Night Fury chased the second group who was already reaching one of their boats. He jumped some hills trying to go through the shortest way but it wasn't fast enough. The ship started sailing away. Toothless tried to follow the boat but something pinned him down.
The group of Dragon Hunters he'd just defeated passed at his side. Some of soldiers carrying his unconscious partners.
"Should we take the Night Fury?" One of them asked.
"No. Ryker gave us specific orders. We'll come back for him and the other dragons later!" Another one answered.
Toothless shot more plasma blasts to try and free himself from the net securing his but unfortunately when he finally made it the second ship'd already joined the first one.
They were sailing away with the Dragon Eye and Toothless knew how important it was for Hiccup. He'd failed his buddy.
Toothless roared in fury as he watched the ships disappearing in the horizon.
Well yeah… they just lost the Dragon Eye. It had to happen since this story is located between season 2 and 3 of RTTE…
Well what do you think? Too mean? Nah I don't think so… I mean, it's not like Hiccup's dying or something like that lol… ok I better go now!
Next chapter tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed chapter 13! XD
