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AN: Let the games begin!

Arc: The Retrieval

Days Until Wedding: 24 days

Music I'm Listenting To At The Moment: Life's Too Short

"Is That The Worst You Got"

When Dagur gave the go all Hel break lose in the middle of the arena. Prisoners ran blindly towards each other disregarding their safety because they knew that they would die anyway. Hiccup didn't do that though. What he did instead was go to the side and picked up a bow from a dead prisoner.

"Sorry" he mumbled as he took the quiver from the back of the corpse and readied his weapon. Hiccup might be more suitable being a melee fighter but he was also good with a bow. He had really good accuracy and he was also pretty good at shooting fast moving targets.

He let go of the string and the arrow connected with a prisoner's leg. He continued doing this and hit the non-vital parts because he didn't want to kill. He may have killed in the past but that was because of blind rage, this was different. He eventually ran out of arrows and decided using his swords to fight the others head on. He still had a good 10 prisoners to fight but for some reason they were terrified of him. It might have something to do with his armor. Before they were escorted at the arena, Dagur ordered his men to return all the weapons and armor to all the participants.

To the other prisoners on the arena, Hiccup looked like Hel itself with his black armor and razor-sharp swords. He danced around prisoners while he slashed on their legs and arms. Hiccup was glad that Astrid gave him a full armor or he would've already died five times over. One-on-one he was invincible. Two-on-one he was flawless. Three-on-one he was good. Four-on-one, now that was asking for it.

Hiccup was having a hard time dodging all those swords going his way so he used some of his tricks. He released some dragon gas from his left hand and ignited it by clashing his swords together. The resulting blast went straight towards two prisoners and burning them. Hiccup breathed a little bit, only three left.

One of them grinned and crossed his arms.

"Looks like someone is tired" he mocked as Hiccup raised a brow inside the helmet. It was then Hiccup realized that he was currently crouching down. It wasn't that he was tired like he said, he was just adjusting something on his boot.

"I'm going to enjoy gutting you to pieces!" the prisoner said as he ran towards Hiccup. He was ready though, the moment the prisoner was a few feet away, Hiccup released some dragon gas infront of him and did the trick again, completely incinerating the incoming prisoner. Hiccup didn't have time to feel guilty because the remaining prisoners were already advancing towards him.

One of them was using a long sword and was currently clashing with Hiccup while the other was trying to hit him with an arrow. He was having a hard time though because Hiccup was as agile as he could be.

The barrage eventually ended when he misfired and hit the throat of the other prisoner and instantly killing him. He looked fearfully at Hiccup as the armored teen calmly walked towards him. He tried to steady his hands and take a shot but he was too afraid to do anything so when Hiccup was infront of him, he dropped to his knees and begged Hiccup to spare him.

Hiccup accepted and looked towards Dagur.

"There! I defeated them all! Are you happy?!" Hiccup shouted towards Dagur who had a blank face.

"No…" Dagur finally replied with a shake of his head "Some of them are still alive" he motioned towards the prisoners who were trying to get up but failed miserably. Dagur grinned as he motioned towards his men "But that can be arranged… archers!" and with that signal every one of Dagur's men who carried a bow fired at the arena and killed everyone who was still breathing except for Hiccup who was able to jump and hide behind an iron wall.

When Hiccup came out, all he could see were people brutally murdered. He couldn't take it and he vomited on the ground. The smell of burned corpse from what he did was still fresh in the air and made everything worse.

"Your winner, Hiccup!" Dagur said and everyone cheered. He sure didn't feel like he won anything. "Guards, escort the winner back to his cell and call in the next batch of fighters."

-Prison Cells-

Hiccup was back in his prison clothes and was back in his cell while Thuggory and other 19 prisoners were being called for their turn to fight.

Hiccup sighed as he buried his face on his hands. Astrid wanted to sit next to him and comfort him but they were in two separate cells.

"Hey, are you ok?" Astrid asked

"It's just that… I just can't believe someone as heartless as Dagur is running freely in this place."

"There's nothing we could do about that now…" Cami sighed "We just have to endure and wait for the right moment to commence your plan."

Hiccup sighed once again "I know but…" Hiccup lifted his head and Astrid could see the anger in his eyes "I don't think I can hold on much longer before I massacre him"

Astrid shivered in fear. Hiccup was being deadly serious. The mischief in his eyes were gone and was replaced by hatred. Pure hatred. She didn't even know if she could do anything by this point to reduce his anger. She wouldn't tell him but she was actually turned on by this Hiccup, the one who took charge and didn't go by logic.

-Arena-

Unlike Hiccup, Thuggory didn't have difficulty in disposing of his enemies. Any prisoner that came his way was killed in an instant either by his mace or his fists. He didn't even flinch after he smashed a guy's head and the blood splattered on his face.

Thuggory was born being a warrior and he was going to die being a legend. He already killed his fifth victim when a giant of a viking confronted him.

"Hello there" the viking rasped. Thuggory just glared up at him "Mind if I cut in!" he said as he delivered his massive sword down on Thuggory. The latter was able to roll away just as the sword hit the ground, the force of the blow actually made the sword slice through the dirt. The giant growled "Hold still!"

"And risk getting sliced in half? No thank you." Thuggory drawled as he mockingly yawned infront of him. This only angered the viking even more and provoked him in blindingly charging towards Thuggory. Thuggory started running towards the center of fights where multiple vikings were clashing. He passed through them and the giant was of a viking was behind him, slashing his massive sword around him and slicing through random vikings.

This happened for about 5 more minutes before Thuggory looked behind him and noticed that the giant was gasping for air now. He slowed down to a jog and turned so he was running backwards.

"What's wrong? Tired?" Thuggory smirked and this only agitated the giant even more. The viking wanted to run faster but his body was already at its limit and because of this, he tripped his own leg and he fell down face first. Thuggory walked casually towards him and noticed that the two of them were the only vikings left alive in the arena.

"Go on…" the viking gasped as he glared at Thuggory heatedly "Do it!"

Thuggory raised his mace above his head with a blank face "With pleasure…" he brought it down with so much force that the viking's head blood splattered all over his face when it was squished. The viking's eyeballs popped out from their sockets while his brain oozed from the giant gaping hole where the mace connected.

Thuggory didn't care though. He intended in saving his father, no matter the cost.

The crowds cheered because the fight was so brutal that even Dagur was on the edge of his seat. He was so excited, there were two vikings in his arena that was a challenge and he couldn't wait to see them fight each other.

Thuggory was brought back to his cell with Hiccup and next up was Camicazi. Dagur knew that the girl had skills since she was well known throughout the Yin Market. She was known to retrieve everything that she was tasked for but she was more known for her assassination skills. She always got the job done and she was good at it. Dagur couldn't wait to see how she would fair in a battle against random opponents.

"And thus the next battle shall commence!" he shouted and every prisoner in the arena charged towards the middle except for Camicazi who ran to the side and took a bow from a random corpse. Just like Hiccup, she shot from the distance. The only difference they had was that Cami had no remorse on killing her targets.

When her arrows ran out, she just looted on the corpse around her and just like that the fight was over. The fight only lasted about 3 minutes. The crowd booed since they wanted a longer match but Cami didn't care about it. This was a fight for survival and she was going to do everything she could just to stay alive.

She didn't even bother to acknowledge the crowd and walked back inside the building towards the prison.

Next up was Astrid and just like Hiccup, she was given back her full armor. She unsheathed her customized bow which was also colored like her armor. It was also visibly thicker and was shorter. Instead of staying back, she rushed head on and hit her targets in point-blank range. Dagur found this amusing since she was very flexible even though she was wearing armor because she dodged every punches and kicks that went her way.

When she ran out of arrows, she put the bow back at the strap behind her and unsheathed her battleaxe. That was when things started getting interesting since she was fairing with giant vikings even though she was a small girl. Dagur frowned when he noticed that just like Hiccup she would spare the lives of her enemies.

Astrid didn't have a single scratch on her when she finally was able to defeat her last opponent. While Astrid was escorted back to the prison, just like before, Dagur ordered his men to rain arrows on the ring to kill the remaining vikings there.

While Hiccup and the others were in their cell, fights were still held outside. It wasn't until later when Hiccup and the others were once again escorted outside, including six more vikings. There were ten of them in total and it was clear that they were the ones left to fight.

"Looks like we have our finalists!" Dagur shouted and the crowd cheered even louder. "I'm willing to bet that this would be the fights of all fights! Fighters!" he gave each of them a pointed look.

Everyone was scattered evenly on the arena, creating a complete circle. Hiccup tightened his grip on his swords and crouched. Thuggory started flexing his muscles and cracked his knuckles. Camicazi started jumping up and down while twisting her neck. Astrid started stretching her legs and arms by jogging in place.

"FIGHT!" Dagur shouted and all Hel broke loose on the ring.

AN: Aaaand done! Enjoy and Review!