I officially love you guys. All of these reviews are amazing and very much appreaciated. In response to some of them:
Guest: Yes I am going to try and put in some Hiccstrid in this story.
DoomsdayBeemXD: The people who kidnapped Hiccup aren't exactly pirates but they are pretty close. The answer is in this chapter. (This goes to anyone else who was wondering the same thing.)
I believe that's all the questions I got, so on with the story and please keep reviewing!
It's been two days and Hiccup still sat cramped inside the small sack on the mysterious ship. His limbs were stiff with a pinching pain growing in his knees back and arms. He tried to stretch out his limbs but the bag wouldn't allow him to. He sighed heavily. The smell inside the bag wasn't as bad anymore. He was strangely getting used to it. Either that or it was going away. He tried to think hard of the possibilities to keep his mind off of the growing pain in his limbs. Hiccup was torn from his thoughts when the ship scrapped up on rock and sand.
"Our first stop sir. Should we ready the runt before we start?" A man said.
"No, if someone takes claim in him then we mark him. We waisted too much time already." The leader said. The sack Hiccup was in was yanked up from the floor. Hiccup wasn't ready for the sudden action and tumbled a bit in the sack. He struggled to right himself in the cramped area. The movements were making his limbs all the more sore and stiff. Hiccup could hear the many footsteps of the men as they walked over dirt and stone.
After what felt like forever, the men stopped and the sound of metal squeaking make his heart pound and his stomach do flips. The bag suddenly fell to the floor. Hiccup let out a surprised shout as he fell and a pained grunt as he hit the floor. He heard the men laugh. The bag suddenly opened let the light of the sun flood in and burn his eyes. Hiccup covered his eyes with his arm trying to block the light. One of the men grabbed his arm and yanked him out of the sack and roughly threw him to the ground. Hiccup fell flat on his face in a pile of mud. The men laughed again. He lifted his head and wiped off the mud from his face. He then felt someone messing with his prosthetic. He looked down just in time to see one man pull the fake leg away from his stump.
"Hey, what are you doing?" He demanded.
"Shut it, runt!" The leader hissed. Hiccup jumped back at the demanding sound of his voice. "Get on your feet. Or, should I say foot." He smirked evilly. Hiccup glared at the man but stood up best he could. His legs were stiff and it felt like there were needles in his joints. He obviously wasn't fast enough because another man came and yanked him to his feet. "Now. What's your name runt?" The leader asked. It was now that Hiccup could tell there are more men standing around than there was when he was kidnapped.
"Hiccup." He answered with a hint of venom on his tongue. The leader laughed.
"Hiccup! Ha, it suits you, runt." He laughed along with the other men. "Now, we already know where you're from so we'll skip that." He said with a wicked grin. Hiccup nearly growled at the man if he didn't look so menacing that he could take off his head with a flick of the finger. "What do you do at your village?" He asked. Hiccup wasn't about to tell him he trains dragons on Berk. He had to come up with a lie.
"Small home repairs, cleaning, blacksmithing, a little cooking." Hiccup said. It wasn't an entire lie. He just left out the big part. He noticed a man off to the side writing on an old sheet of paper.
"How old are you?" The leader asked as he circled Hiccup like a hungry vulture.
"16." He answered.
"Look more like 10 to me." He snickered. 'Well that's why they call me a runt now isn't it?' Hiccup thought to himself. He had to hold back from rolling his eyes and keeping his mouth shut. "Put him with the others." The man said. Hiccup looked at him confused until two men grabbed Hiccup by the arms and dragged him toward a metal cage. Well it was something of a cage. It was a large metal box on top of a wagon. The walls were solid metal except for the tiny window on either side. Of course the windows were bared. The door at the back was open showing how dark it was inside the cage.
Hiccup was roughly thrown inside. "Wait!" He called as he sat up and looked to the men. "What about my leg?" He asked.
"You'll get it back when someone claims you. Now shut your mouth like all the others." He said before slamming the door shut.
"Others?" Hiccup questioned to himself. The sound of a wipe and a yak shout in surprise was heard before the cage started moving forward.
"You better get comfortable kid." A voice of a boy about his age said out of the darkness. HIccup gasped.
"W-who's there?" He demanded but came out more of a frightened question. He heard something shifting around in the darkness.
"Relax kid, I'm not gonna hurt you." The voice said. A figure then stepped into the small light the windows gave off. A thin gangly boy around Hiccup's age stood there. His face covered in dirt and his hair messy and dirty.
"I'm Fin. What's your name?" He asked.
"Hiccup"
"Well, welcome to the group Hiccup." Fin said.
"Group?" Just then Hiccup saw at least twenty other forms move in the darkness. His eyes were slowly adjusting back to the darkness. "What are you all doing here?" Hiccup asked.
"You don't know?" A female voice asked shyly and slightly surprised. Hiccup shook his head. Fin looked back at where the voice had come from. The look on his face told Hiccup he didn't want to know. But his curiosity got the better of him.
"That man who brought you here. With the gold tooth. His name is Baltar." He paused as if he was about to turn back from saying anything. Then he continued. "He's a slave trader." Hiccup's heart nearly stopped for good. His face went pale and his stomach grew nauseous.
"A... W-what?" Hiccup asked in fear.
"A slave trader. Didn't you hear him?" A frightened voice of a boy said from the shadows.
"No... No this can't be happening. I can't be sold as a slave. I'm... I'm runt. Who's gonna want a runt?" Hiccup said in fear.
"Everyone these days. We're all runts in here, Hiccup. Didn't you see the sign on the cage? It says Runt Trade. He only sells and trades runts like us." Fin said. Hiccup couldn't believe his ears. Then the events of the night before came back to him. Toothless tried to warn him. He knew something - someone was coming. But Hiccup didn't listen to him. Why didn't he listen to him. He could be safe at home right now with his father, his best friend, Astrid and the others. Hiccup started breathing heavy.
"No... He tried to warn me. Gods I'm so stupid. My best friend knew something was going on before those men kidnapped me. He knew something was wrong but I never listened to him." Hiccup said as tears pricked at his eyes. He felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Take it easy kid." It was Fin. "Thing's will be alright."
"No they won't. I'm being sold as a slave! How is that alright?" Hiccup panicked.
"Look we don't like this anymore than you do but we can't do anything about it. That's why he sells only runts." Fin said. Hiccup perked up at Fin's words.
"W-what did you say?"
"I said we don't like this anymore than you." Fin repeated.
"No. After that."
"Uh, we can't do anything about it?" Fin asked confused.
"No, no after that." Hiccup said.
"Baltar only sells runts?" Fin stated in more of a question.
"Do you know why?" Hiccup asked.
"Well yeah we all do. We're too weak to fight back. We can't lift hammers or swing axes or really use any weapon." Fin said. Hiccup thought for a moment. "Why?" Fin interrupted.
"I might have an idea." Hiccup said but before he could say anything else, the cage wagon stopped making the occupants of the cage tumble a bit. Baltar started talking.
"Ladies and Gentlemen. I have returned as promised with new offered slaves. As I have assured you these young boys and girls were offered to me." Baltar lied. Hiccup scoffed.
"Yeah right." He muttered. The door to the cage opened revealing one of Baltar's men. He yanked me out along with Fin and a few others. Besides Hiccup and Fin, there was two girls and one boy. One girl had long wavy, brown hair and raggedy clothes. The other girl had straight, tangled red hair that fell to her shoulders. Her clothes didn't look any better than the girl beside her. The boy had fairly clean clothes on, his hair was blond and not so messy. Fin's hair was brown and curly. It was about as long as Hiccup's though his hair looked a little flattened and messy like he just got out of bed. His clothes weren't too bad besides the few rips and tears in the clothing. The five were dragged to the front of the wagon where Baltar was standing on a stage-like platform. The five were shoved up on the platform to stand beside Baltar.
"What's going on?" Hiccup asked Fin.
"Shhh. Whatever you do, keep your mouth shut. This is an auction. We're being sold." Fin whispered.
"What?!" Hiccup shouted in a whisper.
"Shut up!" Fin hissed. "Look if we're caught talking without being spoken to, we'll be punished. And believe me, you do not want to get punished." Fin warned. Hiccup turned back to the crowd slightly scared. He eyed Baltar nervously but said nothing and made sure Baltar didn't see him looking at him. The man didn't seem to notice him talking to Fin.
"We have three wonderful young boys here who can be great help around the house. Two of them can clean and cook and one can even do small home repairs and is trained in blacksmithing." Baltar said to the crowd. The people whispered to one another as the looked at us with disgusted stares.
"And what about the girls?" A man in the crowd asked. The girls visibly became nervous and shook. "Are either of those two qualified as a good pleasure slave?" He asked with a sinister grin. The girl with the brown wavy hair gasped in fear as she shook more. Tears pricked her eyes.
"Both are well qualified." Baltar said.
"No... No please." The frightened girl whispered.
"How much for the little curly-haired one." She took a step back. The man sneered at her.
"Never mind. I want a loyal slave, not a maggot afraid of her own shadow." The man hissed. Baltar glared sharply at the girl.
"Poor thing." Fan whispered. "She's in for a beating after now." He finished.
"The punishment?" Hiccup asked.
"Yeah." Fin answered. In the crowd a man walked in. He was big, husky and looked ready to kill every being in the crowd. "Oh no." Fin said.
"What is it?" Hiccup asked.
"It's Maldrigard." Fin said in a disgusted tone. It sounded like he used that tone to hide a deep fear.
"Who's he?" Hiccup asked.
"He's the toughest, meanest and most merciless slave owner anyone has ever known. They say that he works his slaves so hard that every one of them die within the first week of work." Fin said. Hiccup took a sharp intake of breath. "Just pray to the gods he doesn't chose to buy you." Fin said. Hiccup's heart was racing as he began to sweat.
Hiccup looked over the crowd trying to keep his eyes away from Maldrigard. That's when his eyes fell on another man. Hiccup's heart stopped when he saw the man looking at him with hungry, deadly eyes. He would know those eyes anywhere. That face. The face of his enemy. Alvin the Treacherous.