Ch-13 The Letter and the Adventure Begins…
'Now, that I have taken the test, will someone please tell who are the Outcasts?' I asked. Everybody's face went an absolute mask. 'What? What's the matter? Did I do something wrong?' I asked. 'No, nothing you did wrong,' said Astrid. 'Then, tell me!' I replied. 'Outcasts! Hearing that name starts boiling my blood!' said Snotlout 'Not only you,' said Astrid. 'Happy to know that another person's blood also boils,' said Snotlout in a cool voice. 'This is no time to be romantic Snotlout!' replied Astrid. 'The Outcast Tribe is a tribe of savage and cannibalistic Vikings. They are always at constant war with the other tribes and are feared by many, due to their acts of enslaving rival tribes and eating the rival tribe's chief and his heir.' 'Every person in a shipwreck that land in the Outcast Island is eaten! Except for traders.' said Tuffnut.'Alvin the Treacherous is the head of the Outcast Tribe as well as Hiccup's arch-nemesis' said Astrid. 'Stoick the Vast and Alvin the Treacherous are long time enemies.' said Fishlegs. 'The Outcasts have no fear, no consciousness but what they do have is power and lots of it!' said Snotlout. 'They came here in search of Hiccup, saying "Where and who is the "Dragon Conqueror"?' said Ruffnut.
This came quite as a shock to me. 'Ok, so I don't think we need to discuss it further, do we?' I said. 'No, I guess not,' said Hiccup when a Viking came shouting 'Letter from Outcasts! Assemble in the Great Hall! Call Stoick. Sent to Peter! Everybody assemble in the Great Hall.' Hiccup and his friends said 'Your name! Peter go! We too will accompany you.' I went in the Great Hall pushing Vikings saying 'I'm Peter, please excuse me, I'm Peter,'. After reaching the centre I saw Stoick and Gobber already present there. 'It's for you.' said Stoick. Hiccup said, 'You shouldn't read in the dark, you know, come out' I went out followed by huge, huge Vikings and started reading. It read like this-
I still hope you're alive Peter. We too are alive you know, Donald, Ronald, Thomas, Dick, Philip, Alice and I. Now, you must be wondering what happened to Will. Well, he was the first one to be eaten by the Outcasts among us. They're brutal! Simply brutal! We're here on Outcast Island and we're hostage. I'm crying as I'm writing this and they say we have three days until they eat us! Please if, you're alive, please save us. There's another person called Savage who has hurt Thomas and Donald very badly. And I think Ronald has lost his mind saying that there is a room in which an Outcast went and disappeared! Please, I beg of you, please save us!
Your friend Anna
I fell to my knees after hearing this.
'I will kill you' boomed my voice. 'You will suffer Alvin! Even though I know nothing about you. You hurt my friends and I'll kill you! You've hurt Donald and Thomas and you've eaten Will! You've made Anna cry! This time I'll be the more treacherous one!' Only Hiccup said, 'I'll come too, whether you like it or not' I said, 'This is my fight, Hiccup' Hiccup said 'I said whether you like it or not!'
'Ok then' I said, 'Where's Tiger?' Hiccup said 'He went that way' pointing to a nearby forest. 'Let's go then, let's find Tiger' I said. Then we went inside the forest and I found Tiger and headed for Outcast Island. I turned back and saw my friends coming too. 'What did you think? We'll let you go by yourself? Never!' said Astrid. I replied, 'Ok, then. The more, the merrier!'