So here is chapter 5, yeah I know, but seriously sorry for the late post I probably had writers block on this as well as my other stories which I should finish them huh. Anyways I got off topic once again so how do you like Demi and Angel, yeah I put them in there since I was all like how come she only has one dragon it's like he is the only one left in existence so I added more.
Lacie started walking towards the village that seemed to be cheerful. She looked all around her to see if there was anyone she knew but there wasn't. She bumped into someone who glared her down and then said.
"Watch it." The man seemed to want to say something else but he flashed her his teeth instead so Lacie decided to say something back.
"Are you going to finish that sentence or what?" Lacie spouted back in the same tone as the person who bumped into her. The person didn't respond to her and she walked away from that person until a hand was on her shoulder.
"Do you mind telling me what is going on?" Lacie looked at the person who touched her and saw a man very muscular and had reddish orange hair. He also had many beards coming from his beard and his outfit was made of green scales. Lacie swiped the hand off her shoulder and turned to look at him.
"I was just passing through that's all until that ijit bumped into me and told me to watch it that's all. There is no need to cause a scene over something petty as a simple touch of skin to skin contact." With that, Lacie left the others in awe at her answer in hopes that no one would catch up to her but she was stopped by a dragon that looked like an overgrown beetle. She reached out to the dragon and it let her pet him. Lacie started petting him making her feel at ease and it brought a familiar feeling of the time she got Angel. She was pulled back by the same person who stopped her in the first place.
"What are you doing with my dragon?" Lacie looked at him blankly and then back to the dragon.
"He likes you and besides I like dragons they are so cute with their emotions showing so truthfully. Did you know the difference between us humans and the animals including dragons on this planet is self-control? We can keep our desires in check but to a dragon if they feel something they immediately act on it." Lacie smiled at the dragon who roared in return for her smile. She thought she was okay until she felt pain in her head. She clutched her head with her hand and felt something wet. She looked at her hand and there was some blood on it. She looked around her clothes but her vision started getting fuzzy and then everything went black.
Dragon's Edge...
"This isn't right! I demand you let us go immediately. You have no right to do this to us!" Demi kept ramming himself into the bars screaming out for equality. Angel whipped him across the head making him quiet down from all the screaming for the past 3 hours.
"Shut up, Demi, some of us are trying to get some sleep," Angel growled at Demi and went back to sleep and Mir was already sleeping. Demi walked over to the two dragons and went to sleep in between them. They went to sleep. Over at Hiccup and the others they were discussing the dragons.
"Why are we keeping the dragons here when they don't even want to be here?" Snotlout actually said something reasonable for once.
"If we let them out into the world then who knows what might happen to them." Hiccup said with no hesitation.
"Come on face it, Hiccup, they know how to get out of Gronckle iron chains and they know how to get away from here," Astrid said as she crossed her arms.
"I need to find their rider, Lacie, in case something happens. I want to know everything about them and how she found them. All three of them aren't even in the book of dragons and that's what upsets me."
"Hiccup, have you tried using the dragon eye on them?" Fishlegs suddenly said which made Hiccup realize this.
"You're right, Fishlegs but I don't think they'll be willing to give us a slow burn." That's when a terrible terror came flying into the meeting room with a message from his father.
Hiccup Ther's trouble over at Berk How soon can you come over here?
Hiccup looked at the letter and told the rest of the gang that he was needed elsewhere and started flying towards berk.
Berk...
"Ehh, I don't know what I have done but I don't think I should be in a jail cell right about now," Lacie said as she was sitting in the middle of the jail cell with a bunch of people on the other side of the door.
"Can you start by telling us who you are and where you come from?" The person who seemed much bigger than the rest of the group in the room.
"Must I answer your questions? I am a person who washed up on your what was it shores? beach? land?" She sharply inhaled as she kept questioning what did she land on. "Oh, I know, your place called Berk. That's it anyways I am fine, thank you very much. Thank you for noticing that I was bleeding all over the place you know dropping into an ocean that has sharp rocks at the bottom wouldn't faze me at all." There was no answer to her so she continued on. "So, you want to know who I am where do I start...uhm...let's see...my name?...or you want the why first... this is hard...why did you have to give me such a vague question."
"Just tell us your name then." He said as he tried to remain calm.
"Hmm, my name my name...what was it again? Can I ask you a question before I respond to yours?"
"Fine out with it."
"Are you guys the good ones or the bad ones?" Lacie said with the hint of rage in the last few words but no one took notice of it.
"I like to think that our tribe is a good one if that's the answer you are looking for."
"Then define good because out of all my 18 years on this godforsaken planet I don't understand between good or bad. When people say they are the good guys why do they hurt people more than helping them? Never once has a person said they were bad not once have I heard from an honest person's lips that they themselves were bad. That they were tainted that they have thoughts of hurting others more than helping the weak. So define your definition as a good tribe!" Lacie was holding her right side of her rib cage and she was out of breath but she didn't take her eyes off of the man even when she buckled to the ground on her knees. The man tightened up his fists that were by his side making his knuckles crack and maybe even grit his teeth.
"My tribe doesn't hurt people we help others that are within the tribe. Whoever decides to disturb this peace then, know this we'll do whatever it takes to get them off of Berk."
"Oh,... I'm... so...scared... over... a ...tiny threat... like that. I had worse. You'll do whatever it takes to get me off them ship me away. Throw me to them boars to ram me until my head splits open. Burn me at the stake and smell my flesh burning away into the wind. Tie me up and dump me into the ocean and just leave me to drown. Maybe since you have dragons you can either burn me up alive, use me as target practice, make me a mold of silver or try and make a human bomb. It's all up to you, fine sir."
"It's Stoick. My name is Stoick the Vast. Now I answered your question answer mine. What is your name?"
"Lacie. I'll only tell you my first name because I don't trust you with my last and nice nickname. Want to hear mine then it's Lacie the Ripper? It's interesting how titles define who you are but I got that nickname because others were scared of me. So what other question you have for me?" Lacie looked at Stoick who was looking at her weirdly. "Stoic it. I hate those eyes that look at me as if I'm crazy." Lacie made herself comfortable in her position by sitting cross-legged and just watched the people walk away. Only Stoick and the person with one hand and one leg were still with her.
"Can you tell me how you got here?"
"Mmmmm, let's see I was hanging over a cliff and then I fell I did somethings I don't want to explain and I ended up here I guess. Can't really tell you since you'll never believe me if I say these things."
"Gobber, what do you think about her story?"
"I think she is a little you know a wee bit over her head."
"You guys, do know I can hear you since you haven't left the room yet? Damn, maybe I should have left this place when I had the chance."
"Let's go, Stoick, it's obvious that she doesn't want to talk to us." Lacie watched them walk off and close the door behind them. Lacie unbuttoned her shirt and took it off. She looked at any visible cuts or bruises, however, there were stains of blood all over her stomach. She didn't have anything to wipe it away so she put her shirt back on. She looked at the structure of the cell and it was made out of wood. There was a window that was really high but it only showed her the sky. She knocked on the wooden pillars made of the cells. Lacie wondered if it was just made of logs that they used to make them since she was used to more realistic ones like made of cement or stone. She found one of the wooden bars weaker than the rest. She looked at it and found a crack with some rotting from the inside. She checked the space from the logs and the size of the logs. It was perfect enough for her to get through if she has enough strength to kick it down. She sat back down and just stared at the ceiling. She didn't have anything on her and she certainly didn't want to involve anyone in this mess. She had to get out of this cell and fast but how. She didn't have enough strength to do anything at the moment but just breathe. She waited and waited but she seemed to be getting worse as time went by. Sometimes people checked up on her and sometimes she could hear people just outside saying bad things about her. She decided it was time to get out no matter what the cost was even if it meant death itself. She went to the very end of the wall and slammed into it. Nothing much happened he she tried it again but she was already weak from those two hits. She wanted to go to sleep but if she did then she'll be vulnerable once again. She tried to stay awake but she couldn't and sleep took over her.
Lacie's Dream...
"Hey, mind if I sit here?" Lacie looked up at the source of the voice and found a frail boy who's face was pale enough to be a ghost.
"Sure, I don't care." Lacie went back down to her books and the boy sat beside her. After a while of not talking, he kept getting closer and closer to Lacie. "Do you mind some personal space here?"
"Oh, sorry I just wanted to look at what you're reading." Lacie closed the book to look at the boy who was closer than she had expected.
"It's about a boy who adventures away from home and gets's lost. He finds out later that he went to a different world. So when he goes to a village he is treated poorly because he is a race they despise the most. He barely leaves the village alive when a girl helps him treats his wounds. He is in her debt forever and he tries to get home but the whole kingdom treats him poorly also. He doesn't hate them but helps them instead which he ends up saving the kingdom by sacrificing his life to them. In the end, the kingdom didn't call him a hero just a despised being who just happened to be at the right place at the right time. That's all there is to it." Lacie looked at the boy who was crying from her summary.
"That's...so...sad... sniff... why ...can't they like him...sniff sniff... he saved them..." Lacie patted his head for some comfort but instead the boy hugged her and cried on her shoulder.
"Hey, you're getting snot and tears all over my new uniform." The boy didn't move and she felt him trembling. Lacie let out a breath and stayed like that for a couple minutes. He finally let go of her and wiped away his tears and looked at the mess he made. He started panicking and tried looking for a handkerchief. Lacie giggled a little bit before grabbing her own and wiped it away.
"I am so sorry. I didn't mean to cry on your shoulder or anything like that. It's just that the story was so sad. How come you didn't cry at it?"
"I don't know why I just don't I guess. So can I ask you why are you holding my hand now?"
"Because you...you... poor lost soul." Lacie took back her hand and just stared at the boy.
"Can I at least ask you for your name then?"
"It's Kaname. Kaname Noctus. Yours?"
"Lacie. Lacie Evans. It's nice to know your name finally." Kaname smiled and somehow Lacie found herself smiling as well.
"I hope we have a good time together Lacie."
"Yeah, I hope we do." Lacie looked at the time and she was already late. "Shoot, I have to get going I'm going to be late for my field test." Lacie waved goodbye to him and started running towards an examination room where people started snickering and whispering as soon as she walked into class.
"It's nice of you to join us, Miss. Evans. Take a seat and I'll begin with what you have to do in this field test." Lacie quickly took her seat and started listening to the teacher.
"Today's field test is to find these herbs. You are permitted to leave the school grounds to find these items. The time limit is 3 hours from now. If you are late in coming back you get an automatic zero on this test. You may use your summoned beasts, spirits or whatever to help you look for the items." The teacher was cut off when a student suddenly said.
"What happens if you don't have a summoned beast?" The student glared at Lacie when saying this.
"Sit back down. To answer your question then that person would have to look for it all by themselves. The bell rang and people were rushing out of the classroom to get a head start on the test. Lacie got up as the door was finally free from the students who were pushing and shoving.
"Lacie, can I speak with you?"
"Uhm, will this take a long time I have my field test to take and you specified too many items?"
"No, you aren't participating in this test."
"I'm sorry but you just said that this test is worth half our grade."
"Yes, but the headmaster had a different test for you. He wants to see you immediately."
"I understand." Lacie started walking out of the room and went down a bunch of staircases until she reached two large doors with 15 locks in place.
"State your name, grade, dorm, and business." One of the locks said.
"Lacie Evans, 4th year, Lycus Dorm and the headmaster asked for me."
"Understood." The locks became undone and opened up for Lacie to walk in. She stopped and looked at the man who was reading a book on the legend of the Onyx dragon.
"Headmaster, you called for me."
"Lacie!" He looked up and ran towards her ready for a hug but she went to the side and the headmaster hit the doors. "So mean is this how you treat your guardian."
"You abused your power again," Lacie said it plainly.
"No, I didn't. I need you to go to over to empress kingdom. The princess has requested for you yet again." Lacie looked at the Headmaster as he came up to her and placed his hands on her shoulders. "She wants to perform another summoning for you."
Lacie woke up from a cold splash of water on her face. She looked around and she was still in her cell and let out a sigh. "It was such a good dream too." She whispered under her breath until she heard a cough. She went to look at the person who was at the other end of the bars and to her surprise, it was someone else. Someone younger than all the other people in the village.
"I believe we have met, Lacie." Lacie was confused on how the young boy knew her name. Guess that Stoic person told him Lacie thought.
"We've met...before?" Lacie didn't understand since her time with the people on the hunter's ship was a complete haze. She shook her head trying not to remember her time there.
"Yes. we have, you got me out of that jail cell 3 months ago."
"Ah, you duh Hiccup person." Lacie finally put it together. "Nice to know someone here I think." Hiccup didn't look amused at her answer and then Astrid pushed through the crowd to be beside Hiccup.
"This is her Hiccup, Mir's rider." Lacie widened her eyes when she heard Mir's name.
"Where is he? Where is Mir? Is he with you right now? Answer the damn question!" Lacie slammed herself into the bars making everyone take a step back.
"Easy there one question at a time. He's fine and he's with me someplace safe." Lacie eased herself off the bars and backed away to the center of the prison.
"That's good. That's good. That's really good."
"This time, can you answer my question."
"Yeah.. just... after... I ... go.. take a... nap okay?... I... kind... of... feel... a bit... woozy..." Lacie went silent for a while which got them worried.
"Lacie, can you hear me? Lacie? Lacie!" Hiccup shouted but there was no answer. "Hey open up the cell here!" When the cell opened Hiccup went to check up on Lacie who's body seemed ice cold and her breathing was getting slower and slower. "We need help over here!" Hiccup carried up the limp Lacie to Gothi to see if anything was wrong with her. After 2 hours or go Gothi wrote on the ground. Gobber started reading it.
"There was some bleeding all over her but I cannot find the source of it. She also appears to have something in her system I cannot determine what. She'll be okay after having some rest but I cannot say for sure when she is going to wake up." Hiccup was disappointed in Gothi's answer and walked away. Astrid found Hiccup on the cliff with Toothless looking at the sunset.
"Hey, Hiccup, what's going on?" Astrid sat down beside Hiccup who didn't even say a word to Astrid. "Come on, Hiccup, you can talk to me." Astrid leaned onto Hiccup hoping he would react to Astrid.
"How didn't I see it, Astrid? There was no way she could have left their ship unscathed. I-i-i-i-i should've known that she was hurt. No one would have done nothing if she was bleeding."
"Hiccup, you couldn't have known about her being hurt or anything."
"Astrid, I'm supposed to know these things and yet I was so consumed with getting information on her that this. This happened while I was just there."
"Look at...no...look...Hiccup! Look at me!" Astrid turned his face close to hers where they could see eye to eye literally and Astrid calmly assured him. "Hiccup no matter what you did or what you knew nothing was going to change the fact that she is at Gothi's place resting from who knows what. She's been on that ship for over 5 months now so no one knows what's she has been through. Hiccup, she's going to be alright you hear me. Don't blame yourself over this okay?" Hiccup put his hands where Astrid's were and held it.
"You're right, Astrid. Thank you for coming out here."
"I'll do anything for you, Hiccup." Hiccup leaned in for a kiss but someone coughed and they detached each other real quick with blush all over their faces.
"Hiccup, she's awake." Hiccup looked at Gobber who nodded at him to confirm his disbelief. He got up and started running to Toothless who was playing with a butterfly.
"Toothless, we have to go." Toothless started running towards Hiccup and he hopped onto him and bolted towards Gothi's place. When he got there he saw Lacie looking at the sun which was setting. He got off and she looked at Hiccup for a split second and then back at the sun. "L-lacie, are you okay?"
"Of course, I am never better." All there was was some waves crashing as they said nothing to each other. "Did you know when I fainted I dreamt of something that actually made me cry. I hadn't done that in a long time you know. Sometimes I wonder if I am actually human since I never cried no that's no longer true anymore. I wonder why I am sharing this with you so can you tell me where's Mir. I need to do something and it has to be now or else I don't know what might happen. I lost too much time and I need to end this war even if I come off as the villain." Lacie said in a determined voice that even Hiccup was speechless. He had to do something about Lacie or something terrible might happen. That's what Hiccup felt in his gut in his mind however was so many questions he couldn't get one of them to her.
"Lacie, I have too many questions for you to answer but first of all come with me and my friends that way you don't have to do any of this alone."
"You don't understand, Hiccup! I have to do this alone. I learned my lesson in letting people in they just get hurt in the process of it all. Everyone I ever cared about is gone they just vanish before my eyes. So what is the point in having more people near me when I'm going to get hurt once more? I don't want that anymore. No more pain for me if I do this alone."
"If you do this alone then no one will be there to save you! We can help you because we are almost the same so Lacie, join us." Astrid came in onto the cliff and started yelling.
"That's just nice, Hiccup, you left me behind just because you father said that Mir's rider is awake. Hi, I'm Astrid." She saw Lacie who was still looking at the ocean and responded.
"And I am Lacie. Nice to meet you." Lacie waved off until she was pulled up from that spot and onto the ground. Stoick was looking at her in the eyes until she smiled. Suddenly Stoick was on the ground with both of his hands on his back with Lacie holding both of them with one hand. She grabbed out a lock tie and placed it on his thumbs making him vulnerable. "I wouldn't struggle so much if I were you. Plastic is hard to rip off either that or they might take your thumbs. Yesh, that's not a pretty sight. Nope not going through that anymore. Anyways please don't put your hands on me as you can tell I don't like it. Make note of that mentally before anyone else gets hurt. So everyone relax and just don't cause a scene." Hiccup ran to his father and started getting the tie lock off of him which only got his father even tighter in the locks. Lacie started patting herself down to look for anything and she realized that she basically had nothing on her. "I'm going to be needing a knife if that's okay with you guys." Hiccup and Astrid went for their weapons and pointed it at Lacie. "I said calm down I need a knife to cut these off or you know something sharp." Hiccup gave it to her and she tugged on the string a little making Stoick grunt in pain until Lacie cut it off. She took the tie with her and walked herself to the edge of the cliff. She started talking with Hiccup and the others about stuff and when they came to a conclusion she was put back into the cell since she couldn't be fully trusted not yet by anyone. Night came and Lacie was already out of her cell and was walking around in the forest. She found a place that looked like a cove. She went down it and found black scales which looked like Mir's until she cut herself with it. It confirmed her suspicions that they were telling the truth about everything. She sat down looking at the lake watching the moon being reflected in the waters. She looked up at the night sky where it had a lot of stars showing. She started naming them by the constellations until she couldn't find the north star. The one that shined the brightest in the night sky pointing where north was where lost sailors were in need of help. She laid down and closed her eyes just for a bit then she would return to the cell.
Lacie's POV in a dream...
The ride to Empress was too long since I had no mount to ride and she was to be sent out as secretly as possible. Somehow the headmaster pulled some string's into the school system saying that I had a leave of absence due to a family emergency. Watching the scenery slowly pass by it was nothing new since this had been my 3rd retry in summoning my sacred beast or whatever it was . It was a wees, ride away from the academy to the kingdom. I left the carriage and was greeted by many guards. It always sends me chills when so many people were there to greet me with such a neutral face. The princess was right there at the front door to the castle with a smile on her face. I really had a hard time dealing with the princess since she was always carefree and reckless.
"It's been a while hasn't it, Lacie," I smiled just to be polite to her.
"It has, hasn't it, Hime." I bowed right in front of her to show my respect but she stopped me from doing so.
"You are to stay here for a week as we get this started once again." We started walking through the entrance doors and went through a series of hallways until we entered a room where there were many chairs and tables.
"So, when are you going to stop using formalities, Lacie?"
"I like calling you Hime, Hime." We were left alone since I've been here too many times to count.
"Well, I don't like it when my closest friend calls me Hime. Just call me what you used to call me when we were younger.. What was it again... umm... I think it was Alice?"
"I don't think so. No no no there is no way I called you Alice."
"I figured out why you called me Alice."
"I don't think I ever called you, Alice. I remembered I have an older sister named Alice, and I called you Sinless, Hime."
"You're no fun, you know that, Lacie."
"Awe, did you miss your nickname, Hime?"
"The best way for you to make it up to me is to call me by my real name."
"Just once or from here on out?" She shot me a glare which didn't sit well with me. I brought my hands up hoping she would understand that I was silently giving up on it. "I got it. I got it, yeah from now on, I'll call you, Cygnus, all better?"
"Much actually, Lacie, I've heard many things about the academy and what they're doing to you over there."
"It's nothing I can't handle, Cygnus, you know me very well." I could see her trembling from either guilt or sadness. "I'm fine, Cygnus, really I am, so stop all of that you are doing right at the moment." Swirling my hand to gesture to all of her she got the message and nodded.
"It's my fault isn't it? That you are being treated this way."
"No no it's nothing you did. It's just that there is no way that such a high-class academy would accept a reject like me who can't summon a sacred spirit or a partner I don't know."
"It's not your fault and you know it. You had one and because of me, he died that's why you have none."
"It's not because of you, I was your guard. I was your bodyguard and yet, I got you kidnapped. The consequences of my actions will never be undone. My partner, Aran, the wolf our life long friend died in order for us to live. So none of this is your fault, Sinless. Everything I am getting now is my punishment, for that simple mistake over letting you roam the garden when the party was going on."
"It's still my fault, I was the one who went out there because I didn't want to deal with my father's people for another moment."
"Let's not talk about this, Cygnus, I am tired we both are so let's just have some rest."
"When are we going to talk about this, Lacie, you were once my bodyguard but you were fired and tossed onto the streets. You had skills in everything that's why the headmaster adopted you and let you go to his school. You all went to the summoning ceremony and only you couldn't get one. You were labeled as incompetent and worthless."
"And we sound like some kind of married couple having some kind of argument. The guards that are guarding that door are listening to this right at this moment and your father is going to hear this. I don't think he's going to be happy when your doing another personal summoning for me. FOR ME! Cygnus, please promise me that this will be the last summoning you do for me. Please I'm begging here because I don't want to see you get hurt."
"Fine, but in return, you have to write to me okay?"
"Yes, I promise. I'll swallow a thousand needles if I ever lie. Besides I'll never betray you ever even if my life depended on it, Cygnus, you have my word on that." She smiled at me showing me that she believed me and it gave me relief as well as herself. She was already crying and all I could do was pull her into a hug to know that I was there for her all the way no matter what happens to her. Somehow I knew this was going to be a long week ahead of me.
How was it yeah I know it's long didn't know how to finish it so yeah I hope you guys like it. Oh yeah thanks MMM for reading this I hope it's to your liking and also those who kept reading on in this fanfic.