A/N: Sorry for the wait. Also, dont bother looking for the backwards word its "a". And for those of you unfamiliar with this, I put a backwards word into every chapter I write. :)
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This is taking forever! You're absolutely sure you know where you're going?" Snotlout asks behind Astrid on Steve.
Astrid nods. "Positive. Berk should be less than ten minutes from here." Astrid says. Snotlout looks down at the note in his hands again.
"How do we even know Johann was invited to the right place? This map looks faulty." Snotlout comments.
"Because, Johann says Ryker delivered it to him. Why would Ryker give him a faulty map?" Astrid asks.
"Hmmm. Let me think about that, oh I dont know he wanted to mislead us!" Snotlout shouts. Steve points one of his feathers up and Snotlout yelps in pain. "Okay, I get it stop whining." Snotlout says and Astrid smirks silently patting Steve's neck as a thank you.
"Johann said that he was invited personally to this when we crossed him yesterday." Astrid states.
"Yesterday! Ugh we've been on this dragon for days!" Snotlout moans.
"Be quiet. I will knock you out again." Astrid threatens.
Snotlout huffs and mutters something Astrid doesn't catch. "There! That's a statue! We're in Berks waters!" Astrid exclaims as Steve zooms past the statues.
Snotlout sighs, "Thank Thor." He breathes. The clouds stretch across the sky in a happy Im going to ruin your day by raining manner.
When Steve lands on Berk Snotlout jumps off his back and kisses the plaza ground. "Oh I love ground and Berk and-" Snotlout starts.
"What are you doing lad?" Stoick asks. Snotlout leaps to his feet face flushing with embarrassment.
"Chief! You're right there!" Snotlout says. Astrid jumps off Steves back.
"Who's your pet?" Gobber asks.
"Steve." Astrid and Snotlout answer in sync.
"What happened to you?" Stoick asks looking at their ripped clothing, messy hair and cuts everywhere.
"Loooong story." Snotlout states.
Astrid grows serious grabbing the paper from out of Snotlout's hands. "Chief, we have a problem."
...
"Alvin?" Hiccup says with wide eyes. The Outcast chief looks down at him with a smirk.
"The one and only." He answers.
Hiccup blinks several times looking over at Dagur with a questioning glance. "Well your father wasn't being agreeable, so I went with the next best person." Dagur answers.
"Next best person?" Alvin repeats looking at Dagur with an irritated expression. Dagur lifts up his hands in a 'I surrender' way.
"What? Stoick is his father, and you're as aware as I how he gets when you do something to Hiccup." Dagur says. Hiccup lets out a soft groan shutting his eyes tightly. Heather crosses the room in half a second grabbing Hiccup's shoulders.
After taking a quick scan of the Haddock Heather looks back at Alvin and Dagur in a small battle of words. Sighing with irritation she releases Hiccup and gets to her feet storming over to the two men. As they see her stormy face, they silence immediately.
"Do you have any medical supplies? Hiccup is injured." Heather states. Alvin looks at a Outcast behind him who looks at a man leaning grouchily against a wall half shadowed by the light of the room. Groaning in annoyance the man steps forward staff clicking against the ground.
"Mildew?" Tuffnut asks eyes widening. He looks at Ruffnut, "I thought he would be in Valhalla right now."
Mildew grunts in response and hands a satchel to Heather. She takes it and leans down next to Hiccup, Ruffnut joins him and working together both start to remove the shoulder armor. Ruffnut takes the bandages from Heather. Ruffnut has more healing experience than most of them, Tuffnut deals with broken bones but together, the Thorsten's could rival Gothi. Barely.
After removing the current bandages, Heather pales. Hiccups entire front is stained red. Worse is no matter how much Heather slipped and accidently touched the cut, Hiccup didn't react.
Ruffnut purses her lips then starts to wrap the wound. "Do you have the keys?" Heather asks lifting up the shackles around Hiccups wrists.
Alvin looks at Dagur who looks at a Outcast who looks at Mildew hopefully. Mildew huffs and shakes his head, "No I dont have the keys." He says.
"Good news is he'll live." Ruffnut says.
"Great!" Tuffnut says cheerily.
"The bad news is, I don't know what did this to him, so it could or could not be poisoned." Ruffnut finishes.
"...less great." Tuffnut says after a second.
"A Snaptrapper." Alvin and Mildew say in sync.
Fishlegs mutters something.
"What?" Tuffnut asks putting a hand up to his ear, "I cannot hear you, speak up!" He shouts the last part and Fishlegs looks over at him irritably.
"Vemon 18! Dont you understand what this means!?" Fishlegs demands.
"Um...sure. But just to make sure you do, care to explain?" Tuffnut asks.
"It means, the Snaptrapper is more its more poisonous than a Scauldron." Hiccup answers softly.
"You're awake?" Heather asks. Hiccup opens his eyes in response and blinks several times.
"We need to get out of here." He says quietly. Heather nods and holds out a hand to Hiccup. He takes it and she pulls him to his feet. Hiccup stumbles slightly, his lips pursing in pain.
"The way out is just down this tunnel, after that, its smooth sailing." Alvin says.
"What about the dragons?" Hiccup mutters.
"Well, judging on the circumstances, yer dragons can wait lad." Alvin says. At this Hiccup's eyes snap open.
"No! I am not leaving Toothless." He says firmly. Alvin sighs muttering dark things about loyal dragon riders before he waves four men off.
"See what you can do." Alvin commands.
Alvin turns to Hiccup and raises his sword over his head, brief fear flashes through Hiccup's eyes as the sword travels back down to earth, metal meets metal and the shackle chain snaps down the middle.
"Oh. Thanks." Hiccup says. Alvin nods and sheaths his sword turning back to the tunnel.
"About half a mile that way." He says. Hiccup takes a half step and nearly falls forward onto his face, had every rider not been surrounding him like worried siblings.
Heather catches him and bites her lip looking at the twins and Fishlegs, like she is honestly unsure what to do and they have all mastered silent communication
Dagur takes a hesitate step towards Hiccup looking at Heather as if asking for silent permission. When she doesn't tackle him or make a move to stop him, Dagur swings on of Hiccup's arms around his shoulder taking most the weight off his feet. Though his legs aren't injured the Snaptrapper's venom took them as its first victim.
The riders and Outcasts move forward down the passage to the exit. Alvin draws his sword, several Outcasts pulling out weapons after dozens of battles between the riders and Outcasts, its weird to Fishlegs, Hiccup and the twins that the weapons aren't to attack but protect them.
"So," Tuffnut says after several minutes of silence beyond the sound of Hiccup's peg leg tapping on the floor. "how'd you come across these tunnels anyway?"
Alvin laughs softly, "Told Ryker I'd cut off his head unless he showed me another way out." Alvin answers, still chuckling.
"Wow. We should try that tactic." Tuffnut says.
"Yeah, that seemed to have worked really well." Ruffnut agrees. The two Thorsten's start to laugh ignoring the earning looks Alvin, Dagur and Fishlegs are sending them.
"Be quiet or I'll cut 'our tongue out. 'e're directly under the dock. Anyone can hear you." Alvin retorts. The twins look at each other, than look up, then at each other again before they snap their jaws shut.
Grumbling something under his breath, Alvin moves forward the Outcasts and riders following after him. Hiccup's steps grow weaker and weaker to the point Dagur is almost dragging him. After several more minutes Alvin stops and points up.
"The way out is up. Get up." Alvin commands looking directly at Hiccup and Dagur. Dagur nods and pulls a half stumbling Hiccup to under the door. Dagur takes the rope and with Hiccup firmly gripped in one hand proceeds to climb up with one arm.
The twins' jaws drop watching him, "Wow. I have got to get around to more push-ups." Tuffnut comments offhandedly.
After Dagur disappears, Heather grabs the rope and starts to climb followed by the twins then Fishlegs and finally the Outcasts. Alvin is the last person and when he reaches the top he mentally kicks himself sixteen times. There awaiting them swords drawn is Viggo Ryker and two dozen maybe more Dragon Hunters.
"I must admit, your stealth factor doesn't impress me, Alvin." Viggo says drawing a dagger.
"Well your defenses didn't impress me either." Alvin draws. He grabs the hilt of his sword and as he does Viggo hums warningly. Alvin scans around himself and sees Dagur sporting a black eye, Hiccup held up by his hair in Rykers hand sword at his throat.
"It really would be a pity to see him go. But nonetheless, I do what is necessary." Viggo says and Heather clenches her fists moving next to Dagur. "Your move, Alvin." Viggo adds.
Alvin clenches his jaw before looking at the three Outcasts with him, not including Mildew, if he hadn't sent off the dour to look for the dragons, he would try and attack, but, Alvin releases the hilt of his sword.
"What!? He isn't any different from the other idiots we've fought!" Mildew shouts. Alvin slams a fist on his head and Mildew spins slightly.
"Surrender then?" Viggo asks looking at Alvin. "I'll make you a deal, I'll let you go free and all your men and we can pretend this never happened if you leave right now." Viggo says. Alvin snorts.
"Deal." He agrees. Viggo's eyes flash with what is unmistakably surprise before Alvin leaps at Ryker sword drawn in such a quick movement, Toothless would be impressed.
The other Outcasts and riders see this as a command of attack and leap on the nearest people next to them. Ryker manages to block Alvin's deadly blow to his head, dropping Hiccup in the process.
The Haddock crumbles to the floor. Alvin shoves Ryker away and another Dragon Hunter steps forward Fishlegs recognizes instantly as Tip. With a furious war cry he ignores the man he was battling and races at Tip tackling him.
Heather elbows Carr in the face, Dagur some how battling several men at once with a sword he stole and keeping an eye on Hiccup and Heather. The twins both take up Viggo both enjoying and regretting their decision.
After roughly a minute, the twins are shoved backwards landing on top of each other. Viggo looks at them for a second before he looks at Dagur. Drawing a dagger so sharp the end gleams he thrusts it forward.
Heather turns as she sees something sparkling and her green eyes widen, without thinking she throws herself forward. "No!" She yells. Dagur whirls around watching as the dagger seems to sail in slow motion before it hits her chest.
All the battle stops and Hiccup from where he's leaning against a sword watches with horror. Heather looks at the dagger as if she can't believe its actually there and the with a silent scream she crumbles into Dagur's arms.
A/N: ...I will say nothing.
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