A/N: Sorry for being late. I was watching Back to the Future. Anyway, hopefully this one will be worth the wait! so, with out further a due...read on.
Chapter 8: Freed
Hiccup jumped out of the way before the Big Sister struck with her needle.
"Toothless? Can that Needle puncture these scales?" Hiccup asked.
"Not unless there is a lot of weight going into the stabbing." He answered.
"Please don't say stabbing." Hiccup asked. The Big Sister screeched and turned to face Hiccup, her giant eye glowing blood red. Before Hiccup could react, she fired three giant fireballs at him. Hiccup dodged left, avoiding the first. He didn't see the second one until it was right in front of him. A searing heat passed through his body. Hiccup screeched in pain. Before the third one hit, he shot a fire bolt at it. Smoke filled the room.
Hiccup squinted a bit. He heard the Big Sister walking around, her metal boots clanking against the concrete balcony. The sound was soon replaced by the muffled sound of crunching grass. Hiccup noticed a silhouette in the smoke. He darted forward, gliding across the ground. Before it could react, Hiccup wrapped his claws around it…only to meet air!
"Hiccup! It's a trap!" Toothless shouted.
Hiccup felt several blunt objects hit his back. He landed on his back, in pain. The Big Sister ran up to him, and lifted her needle. Hiccup managed to roll out of the way before the needle came down. The Big Sister's needle landed in the floor, sticking into the concrete. Hiccup stood up and noticed her trying to pry it loose. He began to charge towards her. She looked up at him, and back at the needle. Before Hiccup tackled her, she gave a hard yank, lifting a chunk of concrete with the needle, and swung it into Hiccup's jaw.
"AH!" He shouted. The concrete crumbled, giving the needle back to the Big Sister. She held out her other hand. Hiccup felt her lifting him up with Telekinesis. She threw him across the room, and through the wall. Hiccup ended up landing in the courtyard on the other side of the wall.
"Hiccup! Are you okay?" Hiccup wasn't answering. He was unconscious. The Big Sister was coming through the hole in the wall, her arm ablaze. Toothless was getting frantic.
"HICCUP!" Toothless shouted. The Big Sister was getting closer. Toothless sighed.
"I didn't want to do this…" Toothless began concentrating.
The Big Sister was closing in on the creature.
"I will defeat you demon. Whatever you are." She thought. She raised her hand, ready to finish it off. Suddenly, it kicked her hand. Her shots fired into the ceiling, sending plaster and rubble down on them. She looked up to see the demon rising; only now, its pupils were gone. Its eyes were glowing bright green, only adding to its now feral look. Before she could react, the demon darted forward, and head butted her. She flew into the other room again. She was shocked with the strength it now had.
"What is this thing?" She wondered. She stood up and grabbed several objects with Telepathy and surrounded herself with them as a shield. The demon jumped through the wall and fired several fire bolts at her. Several of the shots hit the rubble, completely disintegrating them. One shot, however, managed to break through her defense, and strike her chest. She was thrown back into a nearby pillar, stunned. She looked up in horror as the creature approached, it's teeth bared and claws clacking against the floor.
"What do you plan to do?" She thought, frightened for the first time.
Toothless looked down on the Big Sister. He was in control of Hiccup's body at the moment, concentrating on his limbs and abilities while Hiccup was out.
"Now, time for payback." Toothless screeched, though to the Big Sister it was just growling and roars. Toothless raised his claws and slashed at her. Her diving armor was cut open, and blood seeped through. It seemed to take the Big Sister out of her stupor, as she rolled out from his next slash. She exploded in a cloud of purple petals. Toothless looked around. A crack behind him alerted him. He turned to see her running towards him, hand ablaze. Toothless spun at the last second, and his tail wacked her. She flew back towards a wall. However, instead of crashing, she landed on her feet against it, and pushed away from it with telepathy, shooting her at high speed at Toothless, needle extended. Toothless' eyes widened in shock.
"Oh, shi-" The needle punctured Toothless' scales, right through his chest.
Hiccup jolted awake. He felt great pain in his chest.
"HICCUP!" Toothless' voice echoed through his head. "The Big Sister is draining you!" Hiccup felt his Adam slowly draining away. He began to feel weak.
"St…Stop…please…" He begged. The Big Sister seemed to falter a second, then plunged it deeper. Hiccup wheezed in pain.
"Stop…Stop now…" Hiccup felt something. Like he was seeing someone else's point of view. He began to see memories that weren't his own.
A little girl, with blond hair, laughing. Great pain at one point. A dream world. The knights. Her time of transition. Slaughtering so many people.
Hiccup began to understand.
"It's her." Hiccup began to pour his memories into her.
Living as a Splicer. Finding Toothless. Climbing the shaft. Learning about each other. Curing the Little Sister. Finding Fishlegs. The bond between him and Toothless.
He felt her stagger a bit. Suddenly, she started screaming. All at once, Hiccup was back in his body. The Big Sister was having a fit. The needle was removed from his body. He grunted as he used the Cure-All to heal the hole. He then walked over to her. She was on the ground, curled up in a ball. Hiccup felt pity and remorse for her.
"Hiccup? Something wrong?" Toothless asked.
"I saw her memories Toothless." Hiccup answered. "She was a little girl, innocent and happy, until she was kidnapped and turned into a Little Sister." Hiccup bowed his head and looked into her helmet. She just hid her viewport. She shook.
"Toothless, she shouldn't have gone through this."
"But she did. There's no changing that." Toothless said. Hiccup said nothing.
"I'm gonna cure her." He finally said.
"Hiccup, she tried to kill you. She tried to kill both of us, and she's probably killed many others without remorse. Why should we-"
"Because she's gone through enough trouble in her life!" Hiccup shouted. Toothless went quiet.
"She's done things she had no choice but to do. She deserves a chance of freedom." Hiccup said softly.
"…Okay…Okay, if you're sure…" Toothless said. Hiccup closed his eyes. His body shrank. The scales smoothed out into skin. The wings, fins and tail retracted. He was soon human again. He put his hands around her helmet clasps. She flinched, but did nothing. He undid them, and lifted it. Blond hair fell from the inside. He looked at her after taking it off. She looked similar to the Little Sisters, except her face was sunken, and some areas of her skin was green and rotting a bit. Her eyes were glowing yellow. Tears were flowing from them, going across her dry lips. She couldn't have been older than he was, maybe 17. She looked up at him in fear. Hiccup raised his hand. She leaned away.
"It's okay." Hiccup said. "No one's gonna hurt you ever again." He put his other hand on her wrist and held it. Her eyes widened. He placed his hand on her cheek. His veins lit up, and the light flew into her veins. Hiccup concentrated on the source. The Adam Slug in her stomach. It was fused to it now, but…
Hiccup focused on the lining of the stomach, using the plasmid to cut into it. The area around the slug was soon cut free. He then used the Cure-All to heal the stomach. The Adam in the Big-Sister's body was then absorbed by Hiccup. He took his hand off her. She began to convulse. Suddenly, she leaned over and lurched. Puke went all over the floor. She puked again. In the middle of the waste was the corpse of the slug. She breathed heavily.
"You okay?" Hiccup asked. The Big Sister looked up at him. Her skin was beginning to show color, and the decayed flesh was healed. Her lips were now healed, but extremely dry. And her eyes were now white with a bright blue iris that almost glowed. She looked at him in awe, and gave a slight nod before fainting. Hiccup panicked.
"She's fine Hiccup. She's just fainted. A lot's happened in the past few minutes." Hiccup nodded. He suddenly felt a draft. He looked down and blushed.
"Um, Toothless…Where are my clothes?"
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