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Chapter 9: Burn

Hiccup,

"And where do you think you're going, runt?" Alvin hisses. The blade digs into my back and my spine goes rigid as I try not to cry out.

"I was thinking away." I mutter and Alvin's hand smacks the back of my head. I flinch slightly and wince. Alvin lifts the sword to my neck and drags me back slightly. "Clearly you have other ideas."

"Shut it before I remove your head." Alvin snarls and presses his weapon closer to my throat causing me to lean back towards my captor. Toothless hisses lowly leaning into the ground looking ready to again pounce on Alvin.

"Don't be hasty Alvin." Another voice says and a man walks next to Alvin looking very much that he think's he's in charge but I seriously doubt that's the case. Viggo, this man must be Viggo. "We do need the dragon alive." Viggo states and I pale slightly.

"Why do you want Toothless?" I demand and lean back further from the blade pressed at my throat.

Viggo laughs softly, "Well who wouldn't want a Night Fury?" He asks and then pauses pulling out a golden brown cylinder I instantly recognize as the thing on the paper from the Night Fury. The Dragon Eye.

He turns looking back at me, "Ah, Hiccup Haddock, this round of Maces and Talons has been fun. I've never played against a pirate before." He says and I snort.

"Yeah? Well we cheat."

"Is that so?" Viggo asks rhetorically before moving towards the growling Night Fury seeming unconcerned but I can tell he's tense. "I need you to tell your dragon to project into the Dragon Eye." Viggo says without looking back at me.

"Or?" I ask. They'll kill me.

"You'll be lookin' for your head." Alvin hisses pressing the sword deeper into my throat. If you press that any deeper I'm going to be looking for me head.

"Right." I say and then pause. Where's Astrid? She was supposed to be distracting Alvin and if Alvin is here then-oh pure rainbows.

Pure.

Alright, I need a plan I need-Inferno! My hands curl around the hilt of the weapon and before I really think about what I'm doing, I slam my peg leg down as hard I can onto Alvin's foot. The Outcasts grip falters on his sword and I click Inferno's latch swinging the blade up and smashing it against the blade of Alvin's sword. It flies from Alvin's grasp hitting the ground with a thick, heavy clatter. I pull away from Alvin's grip and break into a run racing towards Viggo and leap onto the man tackling him to the ground.

The Dragon Eye flies from his grasp and hits the ground with a soft thud and I swing Inferno forward smashing it down on the cylinder. Viggo shoves me off of him towards the Dragon Eye and I pick up the broken pieces of it smirking inwardly. I hope that wasn't terribly important.

"Oops." I offer at Viggo's furious look as he spots the broken pieces of the cylinder.

"You lummox." Viggo growls and I blink dropping the bits of the Dragon Eye onto the floor and stomp on it several times.

"You know what mate, in my defense it slipped from my fingers inconveniently landing under my foot, several times." I say and Viggo stares at me for several seconds his eyes nothing but murderous.

"You have no idea what you've done." He spits.

"Like you said; I'm a terribly clumsy idiot." I return.

"I declare this game over, Hiccup Freebird." Viggo growls and I let out a laugh.

"We're playing a game? What's rule number one then?" I ask and Viggo huffs but gives no answer a buff Viking stepping up next to him.

"Rule one: Destroy all pirates." He growls.

"Rule two: Ignore rule one." I say and the man draws his sword moving forward towards me and Toothless. Toothless hisses and Alvin's glare bores into the advancing man's head, as if sensing it, he stops.

"You got two choices here, 'iccup. You can either stay 'ere and train me dragons and I'll even let Berk go free; or you can die beside them." Alvin says.

Well, those are amazing options.

"I would rather die." I snarl deeply

"So be it." Alvin says and Toothless leaps on me as a wave of arrows are fired where I was a few seconds ago. My fingers scramble for Inferno before I roll out from under Toothless. My eyes widening.

"Toothless!" I shout and he looks up at me eyes unfocused. I scan him for a injury spotting an arrow lodged in his side. The urge to scream, throw up, and the need to throw something in frustration expands twenty times worse than it was before. This can't be happening, why now?

I put a hand on Toothless head, watching as he jerks slightly from it. I grasp the arrow shaft and count silently to three before I rip the arrow from out of him. Toothless jerks and I stare at the arrow amazed the head came out. Arrowheads aren't supposed to come out, they're supposed to stay in so you have to dig for it. I crawl out from under Toothless's wing and a hand grasps my hair pulling me to my feet. I grimace in pain and Alvin lifts me off the ground.

"You really are pathetic." He growls and I grip the arrow so hard it snaps. "Take the dragon." Alvin yells and I look at Toothless before Outcasts and dragon hunters start moving forward.

"What!? No!" I shout and elbow him in the chest; he releases me and I start to race forward to Toothless before something grabs both of my arms and drags me back my shoulders jerking painfully. I twist around looking back at Savage as he smirks and pulls me further away from Toothless as they mussel him and start to drag him off with ten plus hunters and five Outcasts.

"Viggo prepare the fleet as I deal with all...this." Alvin says and gestures in my direction. I give an irritated breath.

"You just gestured to all of me." I say dryly and Savage whacks the back of my head and I cringe slightly. Ow.

"Shut it." Alvin growls.

Viggo sheathes his sword, "Very well, come big brother." Viggo says and he and another man leave the arena, a few feet behind Toothless and his captors. I struggle against Savage's death grip trying to break free and get to Toothless.

"Alvin! Please I'll do anything just don't hurt Toothless!" I shout and Alvin looks back at me.

"Gag him. We've all heard those lies before." He says and I struggle harder in Savage's grip before he releases on of my arms and gabs me in-between my shoulder blades. I flinch my back going rigid ow, ow, ow!

"Hey! You leave Hiccup-"Snotlout starts angrily.

"Shut it!" Alvin yells looking over at the teen as Savage wraps a gag around my mouth, poking at my back any time I start to struggle again. It's harder to hide the wounds from those who inflicted them.

"Savage!" Alvin yells and Savage pushes me forward and I stumble for a second before I walk letting Savage guide me forward hearing Alvin's instructions to the Outcasts and dragon hunters in the arena: "When you see an explosion, kill them all."

Savage leads me forward for a little before he kicks me to my knees. I hit the ground my hands managing to hit the ground in a crawling position. I sit up and rip the gag off my mouth scanning to see we're a while past the village, near a store house. I rub my forearms and Alvin looks down at me, "I wonder how proud Stoick is that his son is bowing to an Outcast." Alvin says and I scowl looking up at him.

"What do you mean?" I demand. I am Alvin's son. Not Stoick's.

"Well fifteen years ago, I took you from your father, surely it was mentioned for the amount of time you spent here." Alvin says. It wasn't. I wasn't on Berk long enough for anything like that to be mentioned. "Oh don't look so surprised, mate." Alvin mocks and I look at him my brain slowly wrapping around this. "You know, it must feel awful knowing that everyone you care about is going to die because of you." Alvin says and I stare up at him, my eyes fixed, "Because, your girlfriend and dragon are in that storage house and when I say so, Savage will pull the trigger and all the Zippleback gas in their will explode, along with those two." Alvin says.

I blink rapidly looking at Alvin panic swirling through me. He's kidding. He has to be kidding. Toothless and Astrid can't die! Savage grips my arm pulling my to my feet. I hear a jingle and slip my hand into Savage's pocket picking out the key ring before looking at Alvin and smirk.

I rip away from Savage and race up the hill to the storage house, reaching the door in less than a minute, "It won't do anything boy! You don't even have the key." Alvin yells, "You might as well go trip off another cliff again!" Alvin adds.

I look back at him lifting up the key ring and smirk Savage's eyes widen, "For your information I jumped." I correct and shove the key into the locked door. "Two: you really should know by know; I am the best pickpocket in the archipelago." I say and shove open the doors to the prison and race into the dark building slamming the doors shut behind me.

I scan around myself in the dark building immensely glad that the dragon hunters and Outcasts are gone. My eyes jump over the blurry shapes, "Hiccup?" A weak voice asks and I whip my head around looking at Astrid as she looks up at me. Her hands are tied together the rope wound around something I can't make out in the inky blankness.

"Astrid!" I cry relief flooding through me. I spot Toothless's glowing green eyes less than a second later and give a breath of relief moving towards Astrid, "Are you okay? What happened?" I demand and she cringes slightly.

"I went to distract Alvin like you said; he didn't appreciate that very much." Astrid says and winces her fingers curling around each other. I purse my lips and my shoulders slump as I start to scan around for something to cut Astrid's ropes.

"I'm sorry, you should have just left me to die on the beach." I murmur quietly and spot a dagger a few feet away. I grab it and move back towards Astrid grabbing her forearms and lifting them up so I can cut down the middle of the bonds.

As soon as they fall lax at my feet Astrid's arm swings and violently punches me on the arm. "Ow!" I yelp, "What-" I start before she leans forward and grips me in a hug.

"I didn't think anyone was coming from me! I didn't know where you were or-what was that?" She pulls away her eyes wide as a clicking sound rings through the air. Zippleback gas and the spark my eyes widen and I move towards Toothless resting a hand on his head.

"Hey bud, how you holding up?" I ask softly.

"Zippleback gas?" Astrid murmurs quietly in confusion.

"We have to get out of here. Alvin's about to blow it up." I say and don't look back at her but can almost see her blue eyes widening. I grab the muzzle wrapped around Toothless's mouth and rip it off. Toothless growls happily still looking disoriented but licks me his saliva running down my front.

I groan in disgust, "Toothless."

"Hiccup…" Astrid says warily as the gas cloud becomes thick enough it's making me dizzy. Taunting you before the end. I turn towards her and then look back at Toothless, he can only carry one person; he's to injured to carry both of us. Only one person is going with him as the other tries to get out of here, I'd say we have about twenty seconds.

"Astrid, get onto Toothless." I command and reach blindly for her hand. I grasp her wrist and pull her towards the dragon shoving him onto her back. "I'll be right behind you." I say and she nods.

"Wait, aren't you coming on Toothless?" She asks and I shake my head.

"He isn't fully healed yet, he can't carry two people." I explain quickly. Astrid stares at me skeptically both her hands wrapped around her middle as she tries to think.

"Hicc-" She starts.

"Just GO!" I yell and point towards the door. Toothless stares back and me knowing full well what I'm doing. I beg him silently with my eyes for him to go along with it and he stares at me for several seconds before he leaps forward towards the exit I see the spark light and start to race towards the exit even though it's useless.

If they'd left half a second later this would have been them as well. At least their safe, Astrid will take care of Toothless and he her.

Something grabs my shoulders abruptly and shoves me to the ground as the blast goes off. The wave of heat heats me like a wall my skin wanting to curl inward as the fire bites at it. I curl in on myself waiting for the heat to die down enough for me to make an escape.

A hand grabs my forearm and drags me forward from the burning building. I cough heavily as we break into open air, my lungs giving a heavy sigh of relief. I open my eyes blinking rapidly staring up at the man who rescued me a thank you on my lips but it dies as I recognize the man my eyes widening as large as they can go,"Alvin?"

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