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Chapter 9 - The Fight
Ruffnut and Tuffnut are standing in front of the Echotri. They're standing in a way almost as if they're protecting it. The only thing is, they don't look like normal Ruffnut and Tuffnut. It's because of their eyes, they are a deep purple.
Astrid walks to them slowly, thinking she can bring them out of their trance. "Hey, Ruff. It's me As-" Hiccup pulls her back before she can get too close. "What are you doing?"
"Don't go near them, they'll only lure you to the Echotri. Don't let it touch you. If it touches you, you'll be under the Echotri's control as well."
"Are they the helpers?" Fishlegs asks.
"No," Hiccup responds. "Look at their eyes, they're just in a trance, so their eyes are violet. The helper's eyes are a pale blue, and also, there's only one helper, not two." The dragons all growl at the Echotri, they seem like they feel threatened.
"Toothless," Hiccup says, looking at his dragon. "Go for its weak spot." He points to a place on the Echotri, and Toothless fires a plasma blast at the Echotri, and it wails in pain.
Snotlout doesn't listen to any of Hiccup's warnings and charges the dragon, shoving Ruffnut and Tuffnut out of the way. "Snotlout! No! Stop!" Hiccup shouts, but it's too late. The Echotri wraps it's claws around Snotlout. "Hey! What are you doing? HOOKFANG!"
Hookfang charges the dragon, but the Echotri catches Hookfang as well. Hiccup groans, "Good job Snotlout. Now it's got a dragon on its side."
Snotlout and Hookfang suddenly stop struggling. The Echotri sets them down and they face the others. Their eyes are now violet as well. Snotlout climbs on Hookfang, and Hookfang catches himself on fire. Stoick and Gobber draw their swords out, Stoick steps towards Snotlout and Hookfang, beginning to raise his sword. Hiccup stops him by putting his arm in front of Stoick. "Don't do it, I know how to reverse it."
Hiccup steps towards Snotlout and Hookfang carefully, everyone watching him in confusion. He's in front of Hookfang when he utters some words that can only be heard by Snotlout and Hookfang. Snotlout and Hookfang blink a few times, and their eyes return to their normal color. "Ugh," Snotlout groans. "What happened?"
"How did you do that?" Astrid asks, and Hiccup just looks at her but doesn't answer.
The Echotri wails an ear-splitting roar. Everyone except Hiccup covers their ears. Hiccup steps closer to it, but not close enough for it to grab him. "Why are you here?" He asks it, and it roars in response.
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. What's the real reason?"
Another roar, this time more angry.
"Well too bad, cause you can't do that. I won't let you, ever."
The Echotri tries to grab Hiccup, but he simply moves out of the way. It keeps trying to grab him and Hiccup keeps dodging until it suddenly stops after a minute. The Echotri lets out a low, menacing roar. Hiccup looks like he's been punched in the face.
"You wouldn't dare."
"What's it saying?" Gobber asks.
"It's threatening."
"Well, what's it threatening?" Astrid asks.
"Something precious."
Hiccup and the dragon continue with whatever they're arguing about when the Echotri loses its controlling grasp on the twins' minds since it's so caught up in arguing with Hiccup.
Ruffnut and Tuffnut suddenly stagger where they're standing and hold their heads, groaning. "Ugh, what happened?"
"I think we got kidnapped."
"Cool!"
"Yeah!" They head butt. Everyone carefully goes to them, asking if they're okay. Everyone except Hiccup. He is still deep an argument with the Echotri that seems to get worse by the minute. Hiccup has switched to the dragon's roar, he must not want the others to know what the two are arguing about.
"Hey, Fishlegs." Astrid says, elbowing him to get his attention.
"Ouch. What Astrid?" Fishlegs says, rubbing his now sore arm. Man, her elbow is pointy.
"Can you translate any of what they're saying?" Astrid points to Hiccup and the Echotri.
"I can try." Fishlegs says, then tries to tune in to the constant roaring. He has a hard time because they're talking so fast, but he manages to pick up bits and pieces of the argument.
"So? Anything?" Astrid asks, looking from Hiccup and the Echotri to Fishlegs.
"Just bits and pieces." Fishlegs says. "Something about permission and killing them all. Whatever that could mean."
The arguing suddenly stops, Hiccup standing there his mouth agape. Everyone notices the sudden silence and turns to look at the two.
"Y-you can't do that." Hiccup stutters, switching back to normal language, wait. Stutters? Something must be really wrong if Hiccup is actually stuttering.
"You have no right!" Hiccup says, pointing a finger and stepping even closer to the Echotri. The Echotri simply roars.
"That-that's why you're doing this?! Well, it's not Berk's fault! Why take it out on them?"
The Echotri lets out an angry screech. "Because you lost something precious to you, everyone else has to as well right?" He's about five feet away from the dragon now.
"Hiccup, I think you're too close.." Astrid says stepping towards him a little bit, but Hiccup just waves her off. Well, at least he didn't flat out ignore her this time.
The Echotri suddenly swipes at Hiccup, successfully catching him in its grasp. Hiccup squirms and tries to get out, but it's grip is too strong. It growls at Hiccup, and Hiccup stops squirming and glares at the dragon.
"I will never-" A terrible screech cuts him off. The glare falls off Hiccup's face, he now looks terrified. "You wouldn't." The Echotri picks Astrid up in a death grip. She struggles to breathe, but the grip gets tighter by the second.
When her face is starting to turn blue, Hiccup gives in. "Okay! Okay, you win! Just put her down!"
The Echotri seems to smile as he drops Astrid on the ground, and she's gasping in breaths. "What….did...you...just...agree...to?" She asks between breaths.
"I'm sorry," Is all can muster to her in a broken voice as the Echotri sets Hiccup down in front of it.
He takes a shaky breath. "I-I give you permission."
Pain explodes through Hiccup soon after he says those four words. He screams in utter agony, dropping down to his knees and hugging his middle. His body feels like it's on fire and freezing at the same time. No one moves, they're shocked and confused as to what's happening.
Stoick remembers. He said he would kill Hiccup on the spot if this happened again. But he can't bring himself to do it. He knows what will happen if he does.
Shame.
Sadness.
Anger.
Blame.
Yet peace.
But he also knows what will happen if he doesn't.
Pain.
Destruction.
Death.
Hiccup tries to speak through the pain, but it comes out a whisper. "Dad….please."
"What does he want you to do, Stoick?" Gobber asks.
"He wants me to kill him." Stoick says. Everyone gasps, but the dragons begin to growl at Hiccup, who is still in white hot pain.
"Now…..please...before it's too late," Hiccup manages out through all the pain. "You have to…...now."
"I will not, Hiccup." Stoick refuges.
"You do it….or….. the dragons….will." Everyone turns to the dragons. Each dragon is getting ready to fire everything they've got at Hiccup. Even Toothless. The riders go to their dragons, Astrid goes to Stormfly and Toothless and they try to calm their dragons down. But with no luck, the dragons only push their riders aside.
Hiccup gives one last scream in agony. And then the dragons fire all they've got at him.
Once the smoke clears, Stoick goes to Hiccup. "Hiccup!" He drops to his knees and raises the boy's chest to his ear. When he doesn't hear the thumping sound he never thought he'd wish to hear, his heart drops.
He puts Hiccup back on the ground gently, as if he'd break him. His head hangs, his eyes looking at the ground.
"No…" Astrid breathes, and she covers her mouth with her hands. "He can't be…"
Gobber walks to Stoick and puts a hand on his shoulder gently. "I'm sorry, Stoick."
"Yeah," Stoick says in a broken voice that no one has ever heard him use before. "Me too."
Yeah, that just happened.
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