"CAMICAZI! You're ok! I've been so worried about you!" A voice yelled frantically as she entered the cell block. The speakers crashed into the bars, hands reaching through to touch her face, to make sure she was really there.
"S...Savage?" She gasped as he tried to hug her through the bars of his cell. "Wha...Why...?"
"You're ok! You're safe and that is all that matters."
"Savage, I don't understand..." She whispered, tears were burning again as he stared at her, as if seeing her for the first time. Hiccup stood back a little bit, and held up a hand to silence Snotlout before he could say anything. Savage's response to Camicazi was interesting.
"I'm just glad you're alright. You'll be safe now. I give you my word."
"Well that means nothing." She said stepping back, suddenly cold as ice. "You and I both know your word is worth less than limpets on a day when you have fish to eat." Her sudden cold attitude intrigued Hiccup, even more so when Savage sank a little and hung his head in shame beneath her glare.
"You're right. But, I mean it this time..."
"Like I'm going to believe that. You've been hiding the truth from me for years. You lied to me! And now you want me to trust your word? As if Savage." She turned to walk away.
"Ok ok, Camicazi wait! I know I've hidden things from you in the past, but never again. Never. Ask me anything and I'll tell you the truth."
"Ok. Why did you look after me after mother died? Why keep caring for me?" Savage looked uncertainly towards where Dagur was. "Why Savage?"
"Because I promised her I would always take care of you, no matter what happened to her. I'd protect you from Dagur and..."
"And what?"
"And, return you to your real family, your true tribe one day."
"Why did you promise that?"
"Because... because I loved her." Savage looked embarrassed but told her none-the-less. Hiccup stared, Savage was capable of love?
"And me? Did you ever care about me at all? Or was it always just for her? Like it was for father?"
"You grew on me, even when she was around. I do care Camicazi, of course I do. I can't have spent thirteen years watching you grow, caring for you, training you and seeing the young woman you will become and not care."
"You know who my parents, my tribe really are don't you Savage?" She'd finally reached the question she was most keen to have answered. She'd get Sparky now and leave to find them.
"I want to find my family. My real family." She turned to Hiccup. "I have to find them; maybe someday I'll come back and visit. But I have to find my family. To know who I really am. I'm taking Sparky and leaving by nightfall. That's my final decision." Hiccup said nothing. Savage looked hard at her, then glanced back to Hiccup who nodded very very slightly.
"Savage? You know, I know you do."
"Y...yes I do know."
"Tell me then... please."
"Well, your mother, your real mother... she's a born fighter, like you. Very beautiful. Very strong. And your father, he's... he's very like you in so many ways. Bright green eyes, he loves dragons as much as you. He would willingly, and has willingly thrown himself into a dangerous path to protect his own dragon, a dragon as unusual and powerful as your own. He's a great leader and a dragon trainer..." He watched her carefully, she felt something dawning on her, like the first warm day after a frozen winter. Savage watched her expression and glanced back at Hiccup again. "You have an older brother as well. I don't know much about him. He was only an infant when you disappeared. Carried from your burning home by a small green Terrible Terror called Sharpshot... Your father tried to find you, but you were gone. I see your parents so much in you... the warrior and the dragon trainer..." He stared at Hiccup now and she turned around, her eyes glassy and looked at him. His own eyes were watering as he looked at her. She saw now his eyes were not just green, they were precisely the same shape and shade as hers.
"Dad?" She whispered. Hiccup smiled at her and nodded. Camicazi turned back to Savage as if seeking conformation.
"You were born to the Hooligan Tribe of Berk. Daughter of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and Astrid. Sister to Finn. You are Camicazi Horrendous Haddock." She turned back to Hiccup as Savage said this last bit. She couldn't find the words to say, she had no clue about what she was supposed to do, but she knew what she wanted to do. And she took no shame in it. She ran forwards and flung herself into Hiccup's open arms and held onto him as if she would never let go. She cried into his shoulder and buried her face in his neck as he crouched down to hold her tight. For the first time in her life she was being hugged by her father, and knew it. It felt wonderful, he held her tightly and made her feel safe and loved. She was where she belonged.
Reviews always appreciated. Don't worry this is not the end... or maybe that is something to worry about, I don't know :P
