Chapter 3
Alvin stood near the bow of the ship with his hands behind his back. Hiccup would be lying if she said she wasn't afraid of what he might have in store for her. But she could never tell him or anyone else that. She had to hold on.
"Well, Hiccup. Bet you're wondering what it is you're here for." Alvin sneered turning to face her.
"No not really. I already know. You want me to teach you how to train dragons." Hiccup said nonchalantly shrugging her shoulders.
"I always said you were a smart girl. But you also know that if you try to escape…" He turned and watched as Savage crushed an apple right beside her. "… well you get the idea." Alvin finished. "So, do we have a deal?" Alvin smiled evilly with Hiccup realizing she didn't have a lot of options at this point. But still Hiccup didn't answer. 'I've gotten out of this before, I can do it again.' She encouraged herself. 'I just have to buy my time.'
"As long as, if I do what I say, you will leave the people and dragons of Berk in peace." Hiccup bargained back.
"On me word lass." Hiccup recalled Alvin saying those exact words the first time he took her. The first time he found out they could train and ride dragons. 'The word of a treacherous, it pretty much says it all doesn't it, Alvin.' Hiccup thought as Savage dragged her back down to the hold.
(Back on Berk)
Toothless slowly opened his eyes and tried to recall what had happened before he lost consciousness. His body jerked when he remembered that Hiccup had been taken by Alvin and the Outcasts. He tried to move but realized that he was still in chains. He continued to struggle to get free, but the chains still held fast. 'Please Father Thor, if you care about her at all, give me the strength to break these chains and save the one I care about most.' He pleaded. Suddenly he heard a familiar shriek. He looked up and saw his second in command, Stormfly, flying over the forest with her rider, Astrid riding along.
"Hiccup!" He heard Astrid call. Stormfly looked down and saw Toothless in chains. She banked down and landed a few feet away.
"What happened? Where's your rider?" Stormfly asked as she let her rider down to help Toothless.
"The Outcasts took her. I smelled them on the beach and I tried to hide her in the cave. But it didn't do me any good. I tried to fight them to protect the island, but I got captured and they threatened to kill me if Hiccup didn't go with them. It's all my fault, if only I had been stronger, faster, if only…" Toothless ranted to himself. But Stormfly cut him off.
"It wasn't your fault. There is nothing that you could have done to change it. Alvin is too smart to be beaten by a single dragon, even you. Blaming yourself isn't going to get Hiccup back. We have to get to the village and warn her father what has happened." Stormfly said as Astrid finished undoing the chains. "Do you want Astrid to ride to control your tail?"
"No, I'll run, I can get there faster if I run than try to fly with a new rider." Toothless declined before taking off. Toothless ran as fast as his legs would allow. When he reached the village he started searching for Stoick. He found him at the forge arguing with Gobber.
"What do you mean you set her to deliver a hammer to me? I was never down at the beach." Stoick said sounding dumbfounded and worried.
"Mildew came by and said that you were down at the beach settling a dispute and that you would want her down there to help." Gobber said hammering away on a sword.
Toothless took this moment to burst in front of the entrance to get their attention. Screaming he reared back to show that Hiccup wasn't with him.
"Toothless! What are you doing here? Where's Hiccup?" Stoick asked seeing Hiccup gone.
"Hiccup was with him before he disappeared." Gobber said stepping out of the forge.
Just then Astrid and Stormfly landed in front of the forge. "Alvin has Hiccup. The call down to the beach was a trap. I found this down in the sand." Astrid said handing Stoick Alvin's hatchet. "There was never any dispute, Mildew set it up to get Hiccup away from us so Alvin could capture her. We found Toothless wrapped in chains in front of a cave near Thor's beach. He must have tried to hide her, and got captured trying to protect her." Astrid said stepping over to Toothless to calm him down.
Stoick turned to Gobber and ordered him to organize a fleet to head to Outcast Island. "I'm going to pay the old man a visit. We're getting my daughter back." Stoick said heading up to Mildew's house. Toothless, outraged that the one who almost got Hiccup killed no more than a few days ago sold her out to the Outcasts, followed close behind.
'When I get my claws on him, I will make him regret the day Odin sent him to this world.' He thought as he and Stoick got closer and closer to Mildew's house.