To be honest, I'm not satisfied with the chapter, but to my defence I want to say, I'm dead-tired due to the heat wave we have since saturday.
Shout-outs:
Spiral-Voltron-Zero0Q1: Here you go, I hope you like it.
Exposer: I don't know. Haven't seen the movie in two months and only go after the script, which sometimes has wrong information.
I hope you enjoy this chapter despite the lack of reactions.
Raiding Grimmel
(Scene cuts at night in Grimmel's temporary base with his Deathgrippers.)
(One of his Deathgrippers has put its stinger into the top of a glass and is releasing its own venom into it. The Deathgripper takes its stinger out of the glass. Grimmel pours the venom from the glass into a tube and then places the tube into one of his darts.)
„What is he doing?" Fishlegs asked.
„He's taking the dragons venom. You'll see why in a few minutes.
(The riders, which are wearing their dragon flight suits, are flying to Grimmel's temporary base. Hiccup, who has been riding on Stormfly, jumps off, flies to the base and lands on it.)
(Grimmel is still working on something before his Deathgrippers sense that the riders are close. He clicks his fingers, making his Deathgrippers defend him and his base.)
(The riders appear from behind rocks.)
Snotlout: Okay. Split up, we'll be harder to catch.
Eret: I was thinking we should split up... just because.
Astrid laughed. „He's stealing your ideas!"
Valka: I like your instincts.
(The Riders walk off individually and split up.)
Snotlout: What is this?!
(The Riders walk stealthily inside of Grimmel's tower. Astrid throws a stone to the opposite side of the building, misleading a Deathgripper. Tuffnut is very visible until Ruffnut pulls him down barely before a Deathgripper spots him. Hiccup runs upstairs and arrives in Grimmel's room with his Inferno lit. Hiccup doesn't see him inside Grimmel's room anywhere. Unexpectedly, a net falls down and covers the base. Hiccup runs out of the room and Fishmeat starts screaming.)
„I knew it was a trap." Snotlout stated, but I heard uncertainty in his voice, as if he just made that up.
Fishlegs: Shh. Shh. Quiet!
(Hiccup is out of Grimmel's room and finds Grimmel on the other side of the net.)
Grimmel: Where's your dragon when you need him? Hmm, Chief? Must have forgotten all about you. (laughs)First rule of the hunt: Separate the prey from its pack. You've just removed yourselves from the equation.
„Wait. Wasn't that Hiccup's plan in the first place?" Ruffnut asked. Everyone else nodded.
Hiccup: Why are you doing this?
Grimmel: Really? I didn't think you cared. Well, unlike you, when I was a boy and I came up on a Night Fury, I killed it where it slept! That simple act of courage made me a hero in my village. So, I decided to kill every last one, bringing real peace to the people of this world. Until you came along preaching that dragons are something other than thieves and murderers. Psssh. That nonsense dies now. Starting with you.
„You know, dragons aren't the actual problem to peace. It's people who think like this one." Stoick whispered to Gobber, but loud enough for everyone to hear.
„Does this mean you're changing your mind?" I asked curiously.
He nodded. „I'm considering to."
Hiccup: But you have dragons of your own.
(Grimmel laughs at Hiccup's comment.)
Grimmel: These? They're dragon killers. Drugged into obedience with their own venom. Not even your precious Alpha could control them. They serve me.
(Grimmel pushes a drug into the Deathgripper next to him.)
„Remember what Luna said, Fishlegs?" Tamina asked and the husky boy nodded.
Grimmel And only me. Allow me to demonstrate.
(Grimmel whistles.)
Hiccup: Take cover!
(A Deathgripper shoots its acid at the stairs which Hiccup is standing on but Hiccup goes up them just in time.)
Astrid: Split up!
(They split up, running. Astrid gets targeted by a Deathgripper and tries to climb up the net. She just manages to get on top of a section of the net before the Deathgripper jumps on top too. Hiccup jumps and flies onto the chains from the now destroyed stairs. He tries to climb up them but has to swing to a wall before he gets killed from falling. The Deathgripper shoots its acid burst at Hiccup but he just manages to dodge it and get on top. Valka is being attacked by the Deathgrippers and dodges their acid bursts by using her staff. She is right at the top of the building and swings her staff around to call for help.)
I saw the love for his wife in Stoick's eyes when he saw her like that and smiled.
Valka: Up here!
(Astrid is climbing up a wall and dodges a Deathgripper's attacks. She swings on a Deathgripper's tail, kicks it in its face and climbs up the wall again. Cloudjumper arrives at the top of the building and tries to pull the net off of it)
Valka: Hurry!
(All the Riders except Hiccup are on the top of the building and get rescued by their dragons.)
Snotlout: Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
Valka: Hiccup!
„Oh no..." Someone mumbled.
(However, Hiccup is still quite far from the top and doesn't look like he will make it as he realizes there is a big drop. He walks back a few steps, runs and then take a leap just before a Deathgripper kills him. But then he gets saved by his mother.)
Valka: Gotcha! Go, Cloudjumper!
(They escape but the Deathgrippers are still trapped in the burning building because of the net. Suddenly, the Crimson Goregutter appears.)
„How did he find us?" an astounded Hiccup asked. Tamina and I shrugged, not knowing the answer.
Fishlegs: Yeah! Our hero!
(The Crimson Goregutter rams into the building and destroys it into pieces with the Deathgrippers falling down with it, too. Grimmel escapes his crumbling tower and watches the Riders fly away in anger. Fishmeat is screaming again and Ruffnut suddenly comes out of the building as well.)
The Berkians looked at the screen in shock.
Ruffnut: Ugh. He takes that stupid baby everywhere.
(Grimmel looks at Ruffnut in shock and realizes it is a Dragon Rider.)
„How did you manage to forget me?" Ruffnut asked, sounding disappointed and angered.
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