Chapter 11: Prison Break
Nico's POV
I could see the shocked expression on the others faces as Astrid and I landed in front of them, well Toric didn't look surprised, on top of Toothless and Stormfly. I smile at their expressions.
"So we ready to cause some havoc?" I asked them. Immediately they burst into shouts of agreement. I felt Toothless tense slightly at the noise. I rubbed his neck to assure him that it was okay, it seemed to work as he made a soft warbling noise and relaxed.
I heard footsteps and I looked up to see Lyna approaching with a smile plastered on her face.
"Great Thor I didn't think you were serious about the Night Fury!" She exclaimed as she approached Toothless carefully not wanting to give him a reason to attack. Toothless eyed her carefully before snorting and looking in the opposite direction. Lyna rolled her eyes and walked the rest of the distance up to me.
"We're all ready." She informed me.
I nodded and thought for a moment.
"Okay climb on with me." I told her.
Her eyes widened and she backed up slowly.
"Oh no no no there's no way I'm getting on that!" She said.
"It's a he and don't worry you'll be fine." I promised.
She still looked unconvinced so I decided to carry on.
"Look if you're scared you can hold on to me." I teased.
She bristled and marched up to me and in one slick movement climbed on Toothless behind me.
I laughed as she made herself comfortable behind me.
She looked at me and rolled her eyes. "You're so immature." She muttered.
I poked her in the side and she jolted back her eyes widening.
"And you're ticklish!" I said as an evil grin formed on my face.
"Don't eve-" She started but was cut off by Toothless' small roar. We both looked forward to see him looking at us with an unimpressed look on his face.
"Sorry…" I told him as Astrid burst into a laughing fit. I looked at Stormfly and nodded, surprisingly she understood my meaning and smacked Astrid over the head with her tail.
"OW!" Astrid cried as she glared at Stormfly. The Nadder just shrugged. Deciding to be the more mature one I cleared my throat and looked at Toric.
"Toric if it's okay with you I'd like you to ride with Astrid and provide cover fire if necessary." I told him.
He nodded and walked over to the Nadder. I was surprised to see him reach over and give Stormfly a scratch under the chin before swinging himself up behind Astrid.
She looked at him warily as he sat behind her.
"Don't worry I won't be make any sort of contact with you if that's what you want." He told her. Astrid nodded and turned back to face the front.
I looked back at Lyna. "You ready?" I asked.
"Yeah I'll get the gang to meet us at the cells for when we break out Hiccup. She told me before turning to the others.
"Right you lot know your parts so get moving!" She ordered in her commanding voice.
"Damn this girl is pretty intimidating!" I thought as I made myself comfortable on Toothless' back.
"Okay bud you know what to do." I told him as I patted his neck. He grunted, remembering the instructions I'd given him and Stormfly on the way back to the village. Flapping his wings he took off with Stormfly in close pursuit. I felt arms wrap round me as Toothless began to speed up and I couldn't help the smile that appeared on my face.
Third Person POV
It only took about ten minutes to get to the village, the raid was in full swing and there were fires everywhere, Nico now knew what Hiccup meant about lots of new buildings, and most of the houses were on fire or were already just piles of ash and rubble.
"Damn!" Nico winced at the sight of the carnage. His heart dropped into his stomach when he saw that the prison was on fire.
"Crap!" He yelled before leaning closer to Toothless. "Change of plans we need to land as close as we can to that building." He told the Night Fury as he pointed to the flaming building. Toothless nodded and started to dive towards it.
"Astrid change of plans the prisons on fire so you and Lyna will have to go in there and get him." Nico called over his shoulder.
"Got it!" Astrid replied as she told Stormfly what to do.
As they landed a few feet from the building Nico turned round and quickly explained to Lyna what to do.
"Toric and I will cover your escape, if you can get to the forge then the others will meet you there and get you back to the village." He told her.
She nodded and leaped off Toothless' back and ran into the burning building closely followed by Astrid.
"Toric!" Nico yelled over his shoulder. "We need to cover the girls till they get to the forge.
Toric nodded and unslung his bow from around his shoulders.
"Stormfly stay in the sky and do what Toric tells you." He told the Nadder. Stormfly snorted and flew back into the sky. Nico leant forward. "Toothless we need to stay close to the prison while the girls are freeing Hiccup and we can't let anyone else in."
Toothless nodded and with a flap of his wings they were in the sky camouflaged against the night sky.
Lyna's POV
I watched as Nico and Toothless took off I soon lost them as Toothless blended in with the night sky. I turned round to see Astrid throwing herself against the door to the prison in an attempt to open it. I jogged over and put my hand on her shoulder.
"Astrid calm down it won't do much good if you tire yourself out before we get Hiccup." I told her.
She sighed and turned to look at me. "Lyna we're so close I just can't help it and to make matters worse the buildings on fire!" She cried.
I nodded and motioned for her to move away from the door. She did so confused, I winked at her before raising my leg and sending the heel crashing into the door knocking it clean off its hinges. I stepped inside and turned to wait for Astrid. She looked at me total shock written on her face. "How?" She asked.
I shrugged. "Strength is another thing I inherited from my father." I said casually.
She nodded and looked at the cells lining the corridor in front of us.
"I'll take the ones on the left." She said. "You take right."
I nodded and took off quickly scanning the cells one by one. I heard a creaking noise and I looked up to see one of the wooden beams falling towards me. Reacting on reflex I jumped backwards the beam missing me by millimetres.
"Astrid!" I called. "We have to be quick the buildings collapsing!" I yelled.
I heard her shout something back but I couldn't make it out over the noise of the raid. I quickened my search taking only a few seconds to examine each cell. I could hear my heart thumping as I approached the last few cells.
"Three more cells Hiccup has to be in one." I thought as I passed by another.
"Two more…"
"Last one!" I held my breath as I ran to the last cell. At the first glance I thought it was empty but then I saw the motionless lump lying on the floor.
"Hiccup!" I yelled. "Astrid I've found him!"
I heard footsteps approaching as I tried to open the door to the cell. It was then I realised that those footsteps were too loud and too slow to be Astrid's. I turned to see a Viking walking towards me dragging an unconscious Astrid behind him by her hair.
"Astrid!" I called but to no avail she was out cold. I turned to the Viking as he dropped Astrid and drew his axe.
"I told Stoick we should've gotten rid of you outcasts seeing how much damage you've cost us." He muttered in a deep voice as he slowly approached me. "But I might make an exception for a pretty girl like you." He told me, still slowly approaching. I waited till he was within striking distance before I moved. Feigning a move to the left then striking from the right. He obviously hadn't expected me to be as fast as the flat of my axe connected to his temple sending him flying as well as knocking him out. I quickly ran over to Astrid's unconscious form and felt her neck for pulse, thankfully I could feel it though it was faint.
"Great now I have two unconscious people to drag through a raid." I muttered. "Now how do I get Hiccup out the cage?" I
Thought for a minute before it hit me.
"That Viking must have the keys!" I thought.
I turned and slowly made my way over to the unconscious man. I saw a glimpse of metal.
"The key!" I reached round his body slowly and grabbed the keys from their hook. I heard another creak as another wooden beam fell down.
"Damn this is getting worse I need to get the guys out of here!" I thought as I inserted the key into the lock. It opened with a click and I slipped in and ran over to the motionless form of Hiccup. I felt his neck as I had with Astrid, at first I couldn't feel anything but then I felt a very faint pulse against my finger. I sighed in relief and picked him up, as I did I saw the purple bruises lining his arms and a few on his face. I felt my anger flare up.
"They hurt my brother!" I thought as slung him over my shoulder and walked out of the cell. "I Swear to Freyja they will pay for this!" I promised. As I walked out I saw Astrid still lying on the ground.
"Urgh why do the gods hate me?" I asked myself. I tried to pick up Astrid but she was too heavy to carry with Hiccup.
"Okay Lyna calm down you can think of something you've got plenty of time." I told myself in an attempt to calm down and think clearly. It was working until the roof decided it didn't want to live anymore and caved in trapping me, Astrid and Hiccup inside the building which was starting to collapse in on itself. Seeing that I was out of options I did the only thing I could think of.
"HELP!"
Nico's POV
I was starting to worry Lyna and Astrid had been in the prison for too long.
"Come on Toothless." I said tapping the Night Fury's neck. He flew us down till we were hovering just above the blazing roof.
"That's not gonna stay up much longer…" I thought. "I hope they make it out fast."
Another couple of nail-biting minutes passed.
"Okay we need to get in there and find out what's going on." I decided tapping Toothless' neck again but to my horror just before we moved the roof collapsed.
"Shit!" I shouted as Toothless flew closer to the wreckage. Then to my relief I heard something that sounded like help!
"There it is again!" I thought as I made out the sound. "Lyna!" I realised as the voice became clearer.
"Toothless land in there!" I shouted, pointing at the part of the building where the roof was still intact. He warbled and tried to get closer to the building without bring it down. I searched for any sign of Lyna or Astrid in the ruin my heart was starting to sink lower and lower as I failed to spot either of them. Then I heard it.
"Nico over here!"
I turned and saw Lyna standing at the other side of the building trapped by a wall of flames and with Hiccup slung over her shoulder.
"There Toothless!" I told the Night Fury. He turned and hovered for a minute as he tried to figure out a way to get to Lyna. I realised at the same time as him that there wasn't a way to get to them.
"Come on Nico think…" I told myself as I hit my forehead against my palm repeatedly. Then it hit me.
"Lyna get ready to move on my go!" I yelled as loud as I could.
She nodded and it was then I realised Astrid wasn't with her.
"Where's Astrid?" I shouted.
She looked up at me and heaved another unconscious figure into my field of vision.
"What the hell happened in there?" I asked myself.
"Okay Toothless I need you to blast that wall." I told him. "But don't use too much force or you might collapse the building." I added.
He grunted and flew closer to the building before firing a small plasma blast at the wall. There was a small explosion but luckily the building didn't immediately collapse.
I waited with bated breath for Lyna to emerge from the hole. I was worried Toothless might've hurt her in the blast but then looking very beat up she emerged from the hole in the building with Hiccup over her shoulders and dragging Astrid with her hand.
"Lyna!" I called as Toothless and I rushed over to meet her. She looked about ready to collapse as we stopped next to her. I held out my arms and she handed me Hiccup's unconscious form. I set him in front of me carefully. Once I was happy he wouldn't fall off I turned back to take Astrid. I set her behind me with her arms weakly wrapped around me.
"Stay here I'll get Toric and Stormfly to pick you up." I told her as Toothless took off.
"Toothless call Stormfly!" I told him.
He roared and soon the Nadder appeared with Toric sitting comfortably on her back he was surprised to see me with two unconscious people.
"What's going on?" He shouted as he and Stormfly got closer.
"Long story but I need you to go pick up Lyna she's over there and then regroup at the village." I told him. "I'll get the others."
He nodded and flew down to pick up Lyna. Getting a good grip on both Hiccup and Astrid we flew back to the forge where the rest of the gang were waiting to pick up Lyna and Astrid. I saw them pointing at me as I approached.
"Change of plans guys everyone is to meet back at the village!" I yelled at them. Immediately they turned round and legged it back towards the forest.
"Alright Toothless now before we head back to the village we have to go get Scorcher, head to that hut up there." I told him. As we flew over to the hut I failed to notice that more ships had docked earlier that day and that Stoick had returned. I also failed to see him charging up the stairs to the hut after me. What I did see was a pair f bolas flying towards us.
"Look out!" I cried as I spotted the projectile zooming towards us. Acting on reflex Toothless dived under it like he would normally do against a bola except this time I was on his back and he hadn't dived low enough for me to dodge it. I felt the ropes wrap around me and next thing I knew I was having all the air crushed out of me and there was no longer anything beneath me. I turned in the air just in time to see the ground rushing up towards me but this time there was no Hiccup to break my fall. The last thing I felt was a searing pain in my chest as I smacked into the ground and my world went black…
Cliffhanger! Yep so chapter 11 done by Sunday just as I promised. Now I have some news for you guys updating wise.
Since school is restarting on Wednesday I will be loads more busy but I promise I will try my best to update each week. Currently I am going to be updating every Sunday or occasionally Thursday so if I miss a Sunday I will update by Thursday promise. In the case I finish a chapter before Thursday I will post Thursday and Sunday if I have finished the next chapter. So hopefully I can update on Sunday if not next Thursday definitely.
Also I may (depending on time) release a few one-shots that will go along with this story for example what happened to Hiccup while he was in jail and maybe what happened to Toothless if I can find time BUT these updates will come first out of everything!
DragonSoul: Thank you very much it means a lot don't worry I won't be abandoning this story anytime soon!
Rinter215: Oh…*slaps himself* sorry about what I said I clearly didn't think straight...rescue mission damn please forgive my rashness I hope it didn't cause you any offence…I really hope this chapter was good enough for you please tell me if it wasn't and I will try my best to make it up to you in the next chapter. Yeah Toric's kinda like second in command and yeah he's pretty badass if I do say so myself. Yeah I was thinking about doing that Fishlegs is really the only one I don't know what to do with yet. Yeah Snotlout is gonna be a bit of a bad guy in this as I don't like him at all so I will be making him an evil type character and he will do lots in an attempt to break apart Hiccup and Astrid so don't worry a lot of threatening and fights will be appearing. That was Scorcher indeed I will answer that because I did make it pretty obvious. Hm maybe you'll just have to wait and see…don't worry I would never kill off Astrid or any of the main characters I'm not that horrible. Lol yep dat sounds like the best thing to do!
Toothless is best: Dude great name! Thanks a bunch I'm trying my very best right now to keep to a sort of schedule.
MaxusDragon: I don't know if I'll make him go that far I might but I don't know at this stage yet. It is well one! Hmm clever you are much potential in you I see (Yoda Reference). Thanks I will try my best to.
Okay questions!
What do you thinks in store for Nico in the next chapter?
Who do you think the Viking from the prison was?
What kinds of dragons do you think the other gang will get?
Who is your favourite OC in the story so far?
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Adios!