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Unknown
I was running after I heard the yells only to find an empty site and panicked. Where did he go? I thought. I scoured the surrounding forest for hours wondering where he was but found nothing. Just as I was about to give up I saw smoke in the distance and raced towards it to find a huge camp made of stone. Men walked around and thenI saw him, hanging limply between two men as the dragged him inside. Then there was a buzzing in my mind that I had no heard since the Queen.
I followed it to the source to find a huge cave covered in huge ice formations that of which I had never seen before. Charging in I look to see dragons beyond count flying and sleeping but what caught my eye the most was the huge white one down in the water half asleep. He seemed to have noticed my barging in and raised to meet my gaze.
"Welcome young one what brings you here?" he asked.
"My friend got captured by these people and I need to get him back." I said quickly.
"Slow down what is your friend's name?"
"Hiccup."
"What type of dragon?"
"Not a dragon, a human through and through."
He remainder silent and took the information in, but soon he raised his head and called forth his dragons and I knew what I was looking at, an Alpha. He soon returned his gaze to me raising himself fully out of the water.
"Why is your tail missing?"
"Because that human shot me down."
"And yet you rush to protect him."
"He replaced it and now I need him to fly and he needs me now more than ever. I'm his best friend and now the only one he has left as his village wants him dead because of me and wouldn't let that happen."
"Then let's get your friend he could change everything."
He slowly rose and destroyed the ceiling to the cave and the dragons flew out he turned back and lowered his horn and I ran on as he climbed out of the cave but that is when I noticed something I thought I would never see again. Other Night Fury's.
"Onto the Roman camp! Save the boy for the life of this dragon!"
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Hiccup
I didn't exactly know how I got there but one moment the Romans ambushed means the next thing I knew I was chained to the ceiling of some cell missing my upper clothes. Two guards stood at the door utterly silent so I looked around the room to find a table next to me with some vicious looking weapons.
A few minutes later a man walked in, in purple garments and that signified an officer. He waved the guards out and they shut the door behind them. For a few minutes he just stood there examining me and analyzing every bit of my being before he chose to speak.
"What is you name, young one?" he asked.
"Hiccup."
"Good name, you seem like a nice boy and I don't want to harm you unless you utterly refuse. Now tell me why are you all the way out here?"
"I was running."
"From home I suspect and do you know why your here?"
"No."
"I imagined as such, but the reason begin is that you tamed a dragon and that is something we need. Our war with them is becoming too costly and you have brought us the answer we so desperately needed."
"No you don't. I've heard rumors of your empire and its power and there is no way in which the dragons could be causing you that much trouble that your entire nation is about to crumble."
"Clever boy. Guards send in Mord."
A small man came walking in. He hunched over and had a patch over his left eye and a constant frown upon his stopped at the table and grabbed the whip and let it fall in front of him. The ends fell with a sod clang as the metal hooks hit the stone floor.
"Now this will entirely be up to you Hiccup. How well you answer will determine the level of pain you will suffer. The less cooperative the more Mord here gets to have his fun."
The little man smiled and raised the whip ready for the moment I didn't answer to the commander's liking.
"Where did you come from?" he began.
"North."
"To vague, be more specific."
"No."
He nodded and that's when Mord swung and it stung worse than anything before. I could feel the hooks digging into my side and I gasped of pain.
"Berk." I whispered.
"That's more like it."
"Now why did you leave?"
"None of your business."
Mord then yanked the hooks out but the long way across my back. He set the whip down and grabbed a long sword and held it ready.
"Why?" the commander asked again.
"Go…to…hell." I labored.
Mord swung the sword and made a long gash down my front and I bang to bleed badly. Mord seemed to favor the whip more and picked it back up.
"Since you seem so unwilling to cooperate I'll leave you to Mord. Once he's ready to talk inform me first."
He then turned and walked out and I prepared myself as Mord wound up his swing and lashed. Next came the crack of the whip and my screams of pain.
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Toothless
The mass of dragons landed a few hundred yards outside the Roman fort and we watched as they circled the place. Hiccup was somewhere inside that place suffering who knows what all because of his own people being unwilling to change. Magna was the name of the Alpha who now stood looming over the place growing angrier by the second as he saw how much they destroyed his territory.
The Romans had never bothered him before as they came only in same groups but now they had built a small town here with hundreds of them. Dragons of his pack had been disappearing and now he understood why. The other Night Fury had remainder silent but I could tell they were itching to talk to me.
"At dawn we destroy this place." Magna said.
"Hopefully Hiccup is still alive when that happens."
"I can understand why you care for him so much. What he did for you is something I have never seen a human do before."
"How do you know?"
"Alphas know everything about the dragons they protect, we see you memories and hope to wipe out the pain you all suffer by offering our protection. But the Queen you talk of, I have never heard anything like it. To subdue a normal dragon is no issue but to do so to a Night Fury is frightening."
"Tell me about it. When Hiccup shot me down my first concern was what the Queen would do when she found out but he made sure that never happened."
"Does this Queen still live?"
"I believe so and she threatens Berk despite what Hiccup might say he still cares about the place and wouldn't want it to be destroyed."
"Hiccup seems wise beyond his years and smarter than anyone I have ever encountered. There is something inside him, a power, I just know it."
"Well in a little while we can find out."
The sky was beginning to turn a shade of purple and that meant it was almost time.
"Gather them up we move." Magna said.
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Hiccup
I wasn't sure how many times I had passed out but it was at least twice. Mord had his fun and now I was covered in cuts a bleeding like crazy. I finally gave in and told him I would talk so now we waited for the commander and I could catch my breath. I though that Toothless would have come by now but to no such luck. All I could hope for was that eventually he would come, whenever that would be.
The commander walked back in with a smile on his face that he was finally getting what he wanted. A man followed him with parchment and a pen ready to write down everything I had to say.
"I can see you finally came to your senses. Now why did you leave Berk?"
"Because there…was nothing…left for me…there." I whispered.
"A dragon?"
"Yes."
"Good see how much easier this is Hiccup. Why did you give up your home for some dragon?"
Before I could answer the place shook and a man came running in.
"Commander the dragons are attacking!"
"Ready the defenses, seems we'll be talking later."
"Everyone left the cell and I was alone hanging limply form chains. A huge rumble shook my room and I heard the shouts of men and dragons roaring. suddenly the door to my cell was destroyed and a familiar face came running in.
"Toothless you came…back."
I began to cry and another dragon followed him in and cut the chains and I collapsed onto the ground. A huge rumble shook the building and the roof was torn away by a huge paw. Outside was the largest dragon I had ever seen. All of a sudden my head began to feel like someone was tearing it open then just as it came it left and I felt infinitely better.
"Come, young Hiccup your dragon told me all about you. Come before we are overwhelmed."
a voice said.
"Whaa…?"
I collapsed onto Toothless' back and he ran up the horn of the huge dragon. It then roared and the dragons began to pull back the the forest. Looking around the Roman fort was in pieces, flaming and trapped in huge spires of ice as men ran around screaming. The huge dragon ran and that is when everything went black.
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Astrid
Berk was quiet and uneasy after Hiccup had left. Stoick wouldn't leave his house and the dragon raids had taken its tool on the town. Hiccup had seemed to keep the place as less of a target but now that he was gone the raids killed more men and we lost more food than ever before. However for the last week it had been clam and quiet but no one liked the sudden peace. Many celebrated Hiccup's leaving, especially Snotlout.
But I kept him at bay, I still hated Hiccup for two reasons. One he befriended a dragon, beast that had killed hundreds of his own people and two that he left. She couldn't help it but now she hated him more than ever before that he had just left without any regrets or second thoughts. Stoick came out today but only for a brief time and the village let some of the breath it was holding out.
All the remaining teens were in dragon training but each day I found it harder and harder to hurt these dragons. I had convoked myself that once Hiccup was out of my mind it would pass but for now I had to deal with it. Stoick relied heavily on me to keep the village in one piece as he mourned his son. The village understood why, they may have hated Hiccup but he was the only family that Stocik had left and now he was gone just like Valka. I knew things would never be the same but eventually I came to the conclusion that things would only get better if Hiccup came back.
This may have been my fifteen year old self being impulsive and judgmental but it seemed the best option. Hiccup was the source of most of out recent innovations and now that he was gone those things came into disrepair as no one knew how to work them. Sure Gobber's weapons were great but no one clue make them like Hiccup. He spent four days on my axe and even engraved a message into in. Never forget yourself. I just hope that Hiccup wouldn't and that he would on day, come back.
So this is the first note to all of you but this past week was my birthday so now an adult and have to adult things but this is included. Now since I still have school these chapters may not come out too quickly but I will try may hardest to get them too you. Leave a review if you like if not then don't.
-starwarswiz