Hiccup was shocked awake by freezing cold water splashing in his face. He jerked up in a sitting position, wiping his face with his sleeves. He looked around only to meet Dagur's face right in front of him with an empty bucket in hands.
''Here drink some.'' Dagur offered, handing over a bottle containing fresh water for him to drink.
''No, I'm fine,'' Hiccup argued, making a move to stand up only to be forced back down.
''No, you're not,'' Dagur said, retrieving his arm.
''I have to help Astrid,'' Hiccup continued, still fighting to stand up.
''I'll deal with that Astrid of yours, but you...'' he inhaled deeply, ''you gotta stay here. You won't make it the rest of the journey.''
''Since when did you start caring so much about me?'' Hiccup said in a very aggressive tone.
Dagur shrugged, looking around as if the answer would suddenly jump out of nowhere.
''Who else would I try to kill?'' he simply said and made a step closer to the heart of the island.
Hiccup looked down, giving a slight hysteric laugh and looked up again.
''Dagur wait,'' he called and the man turned around immediately. ''Take this,'' he took out his own spyglass and handed it over to Dagur who took it.
''What do you want me to do with this?'' he asked, almost offended, gesturing to the object.
''You won't be doing anything...'' Hiccup said, receiving a confused look from Dagur. ''It's just for Astrid to know that you're with me. She won't trust anybody on this island, especially not you.''
Dagur nodded and headed off, Hiccup's spy glass in a hand, a weapon in the other.
Hiccup inhaled deeply, resting is head back against the rocky cliff face behind him, the dark purple vein having already reached up to his neck, now climbing up to his cheek and the left side of his face, following his jaws line and up to the side of his eye.
...
Astrid paced back and forth in her cell, arms crossed over her chest; couldn't be tighter.
Not a guard secured her area, and she thought many times about escaping, but she had already tried everything; only the key would open this cell.
Sudden footsteps could be heard coming her way, but compared to many times before, she had trouble identifying the sound of those. They seemed to be running in a hurry. A loud BANG! rang followed by a thud and she could see in the distance a Dragon Hunter helmet rolling on the stone ground.
She raised an eyebrow, both of her hands holding the bars keeping her in.
''What in the name of—'' she whispered to herself but didn't finish for the figure that appeared in her sight wasn't the one she was expecting at all.
Dagur ran to her cell, the ring with the key in a hand.
''Dagur!?'' she thought out loud, her eyes wide with shock, backing off.
''Yeah, yeah, did you missed me, of course you did, now let's go!'' he said hurriedly, entering the key in the lock, opening the door's cell wide for her to run away now.
Astrid's eyes caught on the spyglass at the man's belt, thinking about the worst. Without a warning, she sprang out of her cell and grabbed his weapon which turned out to be an axe – good, her favorite weapon – and immediately pressed the blade against his throat, taking hold of Hiccup's spyglass at the same moment.
''Where's Hiccup? What did you do to him?!'' she hissed through gritted teeth, her own nose almost touching Dagur's.
''Oh yeah, that,'' he spoke as calm as ever, ''your boyfriend gave it to me for you to know he was on the island.''
''What!?'' she hissed again, even more shocked now.
''Look, he's not so great, so whether we work together to help him and get out of here, or—''
''Fine, let's go!'' Astrid said, not letting him finish that, because she didn't want to hear it, from whoever those words came from.
She just didn't want to hear it.
They ran through the tunnels, torches lighting the way. They didn't know where exactly Viggo was, nor Ryker or the guards' positions, but they would find the cure, that's for sure. At least Astrid would...
''Wait, wait, wait...'' Dagur said, suddenly coming to a stop.
''Urgh, what?! You see I'm running out of time here!'' Astrid snapped, stopping nonetheless.
''Yes, but,'' Dagur continued, ''I made a deal with Viggo, which is long broken now... He should be waiting in his secretive room.''
''And where is that?'' she asked.
''That way, of course.'' he said, gesturing to the tunnel turning a very different way from all the others.
''Oh.'' Astrid breathed, ''then let's go!''
Dagur sighed, following from behind, taking hold of his given dagger since Astrid stole his favorite axe.
They walked down the tunnel, which was pretty narrowed, and finally made it to a room, a table in the center with chalices and other merchandise which seem very worthy indeed. But even that, it was empty, no one in sight.
''So much for your secretive room idea... He's not here.'' Astrid argued, gesturing in front of her.
''Oh don't worry dear,'' a deep voice came from the shadows, deeper in the room. ''I am here. And I've been expecting you.'' Viggo glanced at Dagur. ''Dagur, you disappoint me entirely. After all the trust I put into you, honestly, I expected more.''
''I'm not easily bought, Viggo.'' Dagur spat the words as if they were poisonous, his eyes never leaving the man.
''It's over Viggo, hand over the cure for Hiccup,'' Astrid ordered, the pointy ends of the axe pointing towards the hunter. ''or I'll make you...''
Viggo inhaled, smiling. ''So brave.'' he breathed out slowly. ''No I'm not giving you this cure.''
Astrid straightened herself and narrowed her eyes at the man.
''Then fine,'' she said, ''you leave me no choice.''
Without a warning, she sprang to him, Dagur on his way, weapons at the ready, going in for the kill. This was really not what Viggo expected... for he thought wisely. Meaning he thought about his adversaries' actions from start to beginning. Thinking Astrid would've acted wisely about what she did, he didn't plan on preparing himself for any blow.
Instantly, Astrid pinned him to the wall before he had even time to take out his own sword. Viggo's first reaction was to laugh as Astrid glared, the blade at his throat with Dagur beside her with the dagger he gave him, now against him.
''Oh, are you gonna kill me now?'' Viggo demanded, still laughing hysterically. ''Go ahead. Try.''
There was slight moment of silence which didn't last long for Astrid had already made up her mind.
''No. No I'm not going to kill you...'' she said softly, her ocean blue eyes never leaving Viggo's dark brown ones. ''I have something far more satisfying in mind. I'm going to leave you here. So you can watch me leave,'' she snatched off the man's necklace with the small bottle containing the cure. ''with this.''
She removed the axe from the man's face, brought it backwards, and with a dash, sank the two ends from the weapon in the stone wall.
That should hold him there for a while, Astrid thought.
She and Dagur turned backs and walked out of the room, away from Viggo, and disappeared back in the narrowed tunnel.