Chapter Ten: Hiccup and Drew

After Drew and Iris's kiss, Twilight began to squawk frantically. Hiccup and Iris looked out the window to see Alvin walking to Notre Dame.

"Alvin is coming." Hiccup said urgently. "You must leave. Quick, follow me."

Hiccup then led Iris to a back door out of the cathedral.

"Go down the South Tower steps!" Hiccup instructed as Iris talked to take Hiccup's hands.

"Be careful my friend." Iris said. "Promise you won't let anything happen to Drew."

"I promise." Hiccup said. Iris may not love him, but he owed their friendship enough to make sure her heart wasn't broken like his.

"Thank you." Iris said with a smile and left.

"We've gotta stash the stiff!" Hikari said urgently as Alvin got closer.

Hiccup grabbed Drew by the arms and slowly pulled him under the table. Just after he had concealed him, Alvin appeared at the door.

"Oh, M-Master." Hiccup said nervously. "I didn't think you'd be coming."

"I'm never too busy to share a meal with you, dear boy." Alvin said with a dark and sinister smile. "I brought a little… Treat."

Alvin then set down a basket of food. He then cleared his throat and Hiccup remembered that it was his job to set the table.

"Oh!" Hiccup said. "Sorry."

Hiccup quickly grabbed two cups and two plates as a loose bowl fell and smashed one of the other plates as Hiccup hastily set the table.

"Is there something troubling you, Hiccup?" Alvin asked as he placed a bushel of grapes on Hiccup's plate.

"Oh, no." Hiccup said quickly.

"Oh but there is." Alvin said as he ate a grape from his own bushel. "I know there is."

A grape rolled off of the table, and Hiccup went to pick it up, noticing Drew's unconscious head clearly visible from Hiccup's position, and that only made him more nervous.

"I think… You're hiding something." Alvin said calmly.

"Oh no Master." Hiccup said as calmly as he could.

"You're not eating boy." Alvin pointed out, and Hiccup stuffed his face with grapes.

"It's very good." Hiccup said with a full mouth. "Thank you."

"Hm…" Drew groaned from under the table.

"Mm…" Hiccup said the same way Drew had done to make it seem like the noise was from him.

"Uh…" Drew said as Hiccup kicked him unconscious and pretended to be coughing.

"Seeds." Hiccup said meekly.

Alvin just starred at Hiccup.

"What's different in here?" Alvin asked.

"Nothing… Sir." Hiccup said quickly, which would be true if Drew wasn't hiding under the table.

"Isn't this one new?" Alvin asked as he picked up the completed Iris figure. "It's awfully good. Looks very much like the gypsy girl."

Hiccup's eyes widened as he realized now that Alvin had learned how Iris got away from the church.

"I know you helped her ESCAPE!" Alvin shouted as he slammed his fist on the table. "And now all Paris is burning because of you!"

"She was kind to me, Master." Hiccup said timidly in self-defense.

"YOU IDIOT!" Alvin called out as he smashed Hiccup's model in his anger, with a dark look in his face that made Hiccup understand more and more what Iris meant by calling Alvin a cruel man… A monster. "That wasn't kindness it was cunning! She's a gypsy!"

Alvin then grabbed Hiccup by his shirt and pulled him up.

"Gypsies aren't capable of real love!" Alvin spat. "Think boy! Think of your mother!"

Alvin then seemed to recompose himself and gently let go of Hiccup.

"But what chance could a poor dragon marked child like you have against her heathen treachery?" Alvin asked rhetorically. "Well, never you mind, Hiccup Haddock."

Alvin pulled out a knife and stabbed the Iris figure with it.

"She'll be out of our lives soon enough."

The figurine caught on fire when Alvin held it to a fallen candle.

"I will free you from her evil spell." Alvin continued as he flicked the burning piece of wood at the floor. "She will torment you no longer."

"What do you mean?" Hiccup asked.

"I know where her hideout is." Alvin said calmly. "And tomorrow at dawn, I attack with a thousand men."

Alvin then left as Hiccup watched in horror.

As soon as Alvin left, a recovered Drew came out, holding his arm stiffly.

"We have to find the Court of Miracles before daybreak." Drew said weakly but surely. "If Alvin gets there first… Are you coming with me?"

"I can't." Hiccup said sadly.

"I thought you were Iris's friend." Kaiba berated.

"Alvin is my master." Hiccup countered. "I can't disobey him again."

"She stood up for you." Drew called out. "You have a funny way of showing gratitude."

Hiccup said nothing.

"Well I'm not just going to sit by and watch Alvin massacre innocent people!" Drew said angrily as he walked off. "You so what you think is right."

Hiccup looked at his three stone friends as they looked at him in a very familiar way.

"What?" Hiccup asked agitatedly. "What am I supposed to do? Go out there and rescue the girl from the jaws of death, and the whole town will cheer like I'm some kind of a hero? She already has her knight in shining armor, and it's not me!" Hiccup then sighed. "Alvin was right. Alvin was right about everything, and I'm tired of trying to be someone I'm not."

Hiccup looked at his hand and remembered Iris's words that maybe Alvin was wrong about both of them. He then looked at the charred remains of the Iris figurine and realized that that was what could happen to the real Iris. He then took out the pendant Iris gave him and sighed. Hikari tapped Hiccup's shoulder and handed him his cloak.

"I must be out of my mind." Hiccup muttered as he put the cloak on.

()()()()()

Drew opened the door of Notre Dame as Hiccup's head appeared at the doorway.

"Drew." Hiccup whispered.

"Ah!" Drew called out as he clutched his chest.

"It's me." Hiccup said.

"Glad you changed your mind." Drew said with a smile.

"I'm not doing it for you; I'm doing it for her." Marik whispered.

"You know where she is?" Drew asked.

"No." Hiccup said. "But she said that this will help us find them."

Hiccup then showed Drew a woven pendent. In the middle were a cross and several other designs.

"Good, good, good." Drew said eagerly. "Ah, great! What is it?"

"I'm not sure." Hiccup said as he observed it.

"Hm…" Drew said. "Must be some sort of code. Old Norse? No. Ancient Greek? No."

"When you wear this woven band, you hold the city in your hand." Hiccup muttered as his eyes widened.

"What?" Drew asked.

"It's the city!" Hiccup proclaimed.

"What are you talking about?" Drew asked.

"It's a map see?" Hiccup asked. "The cross is the cathedral, and this long blue line surrounding it is the river, and this is-"

"I've never seen a map like this." Drew said skeptically.

"I've lived up in the bell tower for 15 years!" Hiccup whispered angrily. "And I think I know what the city looks like from above, and this is it!"

The two then sighed to relieve any negative feelings and Drew decided to go with Hiccup's idea.

"Alright." Drew said. "Okay. If you say it's a map, fine, it's a map. But I if we're going to find Iris, then we have to work together. Truce?"

Drew patted Hiccup lightly on the back.

"Well…" Hiccup said. "Okay."

Hiccup slapped Drew hard on the back, where his arrow wound was still sore.

"Ahh!" Drew groaned.

"Sorry." Hiccup said as he pulled his hood up.

"No you're not." Drew said like he and Hiccup were brothers.

Chaos dose not own The Hunchback of Notre Dame or HTTYD but she owns Iris and Twilight the Snow Fury, Hikari belongs to WingBladeWeaver1357, and Drew belongs to RedDiEnd.