Chapter 13

Caught

A/N: Yay I got this done quickly! Sorry it took a while guys! I'm happy that most of you are still reading this and reviewing this! -throws cookies to those who have been reviewing- And for those of you who've seen HTTYD 2, can you tell me what the metal stick that Hiccup carries is called? I'm getting tired of calling it "the metal stick", and I'm bad at coming up with names without taking something from someone ya know? :T

"Ok! We're here! Now where is he?", asked Snotlout as he crossed his arms over his chest.

Just like what the Dragon Rider has told them, they waited for him on the cliff side.

"Mabe he ditched us!", said Ruffnut. Astrid rolled her eyes. "He could be busy. After all, there are about a billion dragons in this world.", said Fishlegs as he looked at everyone. Snotlout sighed, "-sigh- This is stupid! I'm going to back to bed!", he said in annoyance. He was about to trudge off when they heard the familiar vrooming noise.

They all looked up and saw a boy wearing all black, fall from the sky. "Bout time!", said Snotlout in annoyed tone. "Sorry! A few Terrible Terrors were caught in a net and then on my way here, a Natterhead got it's tail caught and lost a few spikes in it's tail and I had to call some reinforcements.", Hiccup explained as he walked up to them. "Did you get a scratch?!", asked Ruffnut as she leaned against her brother. "Or a burn?!", Tuffnut asked, pushing his helmet back on his head as his sister slammed her side into him. Hiccup shook his head. "If you want to be a Dragon Rider like me, you have to be very careful with these things. The most important thing is to never get caught!", he said. "But why can't you get caught?", asked Snotlout. "Ya! What's the fun in that?!", asked Tuffnut. Hiccup suppressed a sigh, "Do you want a war to start?", he asked them. "Will there be chaos?!", Ruffnut asked as she got excited. Hiccup sighed this time.

"Anyway.", Astrid piped in to change the subject. "Why are we here?", she asked as she put her hand on her hip.

"Well. Toothless and I thought long and hard about this. And…", he started as he started to scratch the back of his head. Some of his short brown hair moving as his hand scratched his head. He made a shy smile, "I think that I could teach you how to get your very own dragon.", he said as he looked away shyly. He wasn't sure how their reaction was going to be. Most would probably think that he was crazy to think of something like that. He closed his eyes for a few seconds and then opened them to look at the kids.

All of them had their mouths opened. Astrid and Fishlegs were pretty much statues with their mouths touching the ground and their eyes full of shock. Snotlouts eyes were wide. The twins just looked at him confused like.

A small blush formed under Hiccups eyes, covering up his freckles. He looked down slightly. "I-It will be hard at first. And I'll understand that you wouldn't want to…", he said, still not looking at them. "Even if we did want to have a dragon of our own. How would we get one?", asked Astrid getting out of her trance. "I mean. If we look for one in the forest, the village is just going to hear us. Remember when you and Toothless got caught? They could hear you. If we wrestled up ourselves a dragon, we'll get caught and get in trouble.", she said with a worried look. Hiccup made a thoughtful look. "Well. First of all. Trying to befriend a dragon will be hard. Especially depending on the type of dragon it is. With Natterhead, you have to go into it's blind spot and slowly go up to it. Then slowly lift up your hand toward it until it calms down. Once it feels your touch, then it will feel reassured and calm down more.", Hiccup tried to explain.

"Well… There is always the Dragon Arena…", piped up Fishlegs while lifting a finger in the air as he talked.

Hiccup and Astrid looked at him surprised. "That could work! Well done Fishlegs!", said Hiccup with a smile. "Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait…. Wait.", said Snotlout very fast like while having his hands up like he's pushing something. "The Berk Dragon Arena. In the village. Surrounded by hundreds of villagers who are looking to kill you. Ya I say that's a very good plan! Let's just get my cousin killed all over again. And then have our parents skin us alive and feed us to the yacks!", he spat out sarcastically as he palled up his fists to his side. Everyone looked at the boy with black hair in shock. "First of all, I didn't die. Second, I have never gotten caught before. Third, I'll make sure you guys won't get into trouble, even if we do get caught.", said Hiccup as he looked at his cousin seriously. Snotlout and Hiccup had their eyes narrowed at each other. Black and green eyes glaring at each other. "Huh!", Snotlout huffed as he crossed his arms in defeat. "Then it's settled! We'll go to the Dragon Arena!", chimed Hiccup. "Wait! Don't we get a say in this?!", asked Tuffnut as he put his hands on his chest as if he was pointing at himself. Everyone looked at the twins. "Well?", asked Hiccup as he lifted his eyebrows. "Nothing.", Tuffnut said as he shrugged, "I just felt like saying something.", he said with a smirk. Everyone rolled their eyes as Ruffnut slammed her fist onto her brothers head.

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So far so good. The teenagers have managed to walk into the Berk village unnoticed. They kept hidden in the shadows and hide behind several things like houses or carts. It was hard for the twins to keep quiet. Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, and Hiccup had to give them both death glares to give them the hint. "Hey! We should-", started Ruffnut quietly. Astrid slammed her hand on her mouth as they kept walking. Tuffnut snickered at her. Then Ruffnut put her hand on his head and shoved him. "Ah!", Tuffnut said as he almost tripped on his feet. Hiccup balled his fists really quick and turned around to glare at the twins, "Will. You. Be. QUIET?!", he whispered angrily. "She started it!", whispered Tuffnut as he nodded his head toward her. Ruffnut glared daggers at him. Then he glared back. Hiccup quickly closed his mouth and balled his fists as he cringed his face in anger. Then he took a big huff as they got to the gate of the Arena.

"Alright. Fishlegs, keep a look out. Astrid, keep an eye on Snotlout and the twins.", ordered Hiccup. "Wait. Why can't we help?", asked Snotlout as he narrowed his black eyes. "Because I don't need any noise to alert the whole village!", Hiccup spat in a hushed voice.

Hiccup grabbed his metal stick on the side of his belt toward a lock on the rusted gate. He pressed a couple of buttons before a small sharp knife like appeared out of it. He put the small knife into the keyhole of the gate. There was some small clicking noise as he moved it around. His tongue was stick out on the corner of his mouth as he concentrated. "Are you sure you know what your doing?", Fishlegs asked as he looked around behind them. "I've done this a thousand times Fishlegs. This will be nothing.", Hiccup said as a click was heard. He took the knife out of the hole and put the metal stick back on the side of his belt.

He pushed the gate opened slowly as to not make any noise. Then he looked at the others to make sure it's ok. Fishlegs nodded for reassurance. Hiccup looked around outside the gate, and then on the inside of the gate.

They all walked in. Except Ruffnut and Tuffnut started a cat fight. They kept on slapping each others hands, trying to hit each others faces. Both of them making grunting noises as they flapped their arms in the air. As they did that, they walked away from the group. Tuffnut managed to slap Ruffnut on the face, "Ha!", he said. Ruffnut narrowed her eyes and shoved her brother. "Woah!", he said as he tripped on his own feet and ran into some barrels that were against the wall next to the gate.

When he crashed it made a loud bang noise and some things breaking. Hiccup face palmed himself. Astrid looked at them like they were stupid. Snotlout put his hands on his hips and snickered. Fishlegs put a hand on his mouth as he gasped. Hiccup put his hand in his hair and grabbed a bundle of it as if he was gonna pull it out. He took a deep sigh and grabbed his helmet.

He put the black scaled like helmet and put it on his head. "What do you need that for?", Astrid asked. "It's for protection as well as to be more connected to the dragons and not have them so scared.", he said as he walked to the other end of the entrance.

In front of him were 5 large gates. "Hey Fishlegs! Do you know what kind of dragons are in these?", Hiccup asked as he kept staring at the cages. Fishlegs put his hand underneath his chin in thought for a moment. "I believe I heard Gobber say there were: Natterhead, Zippleback, Monstrous Nightmare, Gronkle, and a Terrible Terror.", he said. Hiccup nodded.

He started heading toward a lever to the closest cage.

"Hey! What's going on down there?!", shouted a gruff voice from above.

All the kids gasped when they looked up. Hiccup looked up. If the mask wasn't covering his face, terror would be shown in his green eyes.

All of a sudden he was slammed hard to the ground. "Oof!", he grunted as his stomach hit the floor with a thud. "I got him! I got the Dragon Rider!", a voice shouted above him. Hiccups eyes widened in shock when he knew whose it was. "Snotlout what are you doing?!", he panicked. He heard footsteps next to him and managed to glance over. He saw a light pair of boots next to him. Knees crouched down as a tan hand grabbed his metal stick. "Hey!", he said and struggled a bit. Astrid lowered her head to him and put her finger on her mouth as if she's shushing him. It took him a few moments to realise what his friends were doing. He narrowed his eyes and played along. "Get off me!", he spat.

Two pairs of large muscular hands grabbed both of Hiccups arms.

Before Hiccup knew it, he was being dragged out by too big vikings toward the entrance.

All the teens were watching their friend being taken off.

"What are we going to now? If they find out who he is-", Fishlegs started as he scooted closer to Astrid to hide behind. But he was interrupted when Gobber and Stoick walked over to them.

All of them gulped.

"What in Thor's name are you kids doing in here?", Stoick the Vast asked as he finally got to the group of teens. Gobber narrowed his blue eyes and glared at everyone of them to find hidden answers.

"Well… You see sir… We heard some noise down here and decided to check it out. And then we found the Dragon Rider and grabbed him.", Astrid tried explaining at the best of her ability.

The chief had his sharp green eyes narrowed at them. Everyone frozen and not daring to move. Fishlegs lip quivered as he waited for the chief to either go away or say something. The twins just staring in awe and confusion as to what's going on and what's going to happen. Snotlout just crosses his arms on his chest and lifts his chin up proudly. Astrid tries to keep a straight face as she puts her hand on her hip. Gobber glares ice daggers into each teens eyes, seeing if any of them would be lying and burst out at his intense stare.

"We will be taking him to the Great Hall for an interrogation. You lot will come with us as witnesses.", Stoick ordered. "Yes sir.", all the kids said in unison as they watch their chiefs retreating form. Gobber stopped half way. He looked at all the kids and pointed two fingers at his eyes and then pointed those fingers back at the kids. Fishlegs tried his best not to flinch.

"What are we going to do?! You KNOW I'm not good in these types of situations!", Fishlegs whined to Astrid and Snotlout. Astrid grabbed a metal stick and flipped it in the air and caught it again, "That's why I took this!", she said with a smirk. Fishlegs looked at it thoughtfully but with confusion in his eyes. "When the time is right I will give it too him and he can escape!", she said proudly at her plan. "Do you think there'll be a fight?!", asked Ruffnut as she balled up her fists up to her chest and jumped up a little. "Who do you think will win? Stoick or Hiccup?", asked Tuffnut with a smirk as he looked at his sister. They both snickered and banged their heads together as their helmets clanked. Astrid rolled her eyes. "I doubt there'll be a fight! Stoick AND Hiccup has more sense than that.". "We should probably get going there before they ask more questions!", piped up Snotlout as he put his hands behind his head to lean his head against them.

After Snotlout said that, the kids went into a sprint and dashed to the Great Hall.

A/N: ok guys just to warn you: the next few chapters are going to get longer to get on here. Mostly because I'm planing the chapters n then I have to reread them to make sure my wording n stuff is right. So thank you guys for being patient with me! I rlly appreciate it! :3