(Chapter Fourteen)
(Tirdas 7th) (With Astrid)
Astrid woke up as early as she could and was already changing into her new clothes which was the same clothes like the ones she wore yesterday but instead of blue it was red. After changing clothes, she left her room closing the door behind her then headed downstairs to see that her mom was up as well.
Her mom noticed her coming downstairs and greeted her daughter with a smile "Morning Astrid, you're up early"
Astrid headed over to the dining table and sat in a chair that had one of the many plates with a piece of chicken and some bread with a mug of water on the side "Yea, today I'm going to be busy and I want to get a head start on it" she explained.
"Well, it seems like you should hurry and eat up before you leave" Astrid was already doing that before she could even finish her sentence.
Her mother was happy to see that Astrid is slowly becoming her old self again 'I guess what I said was the main cause of this change' she thought while she watched her daughter eat with a smile.
Astrid didn't notice this and once she was done she quickly got up and out of her seat and went straight for the door "Bye mom, I'll be back letter"
Outside of her house she could already see Stoick patrolling the village, he looks happy and she could probably guess why. The plan with putting a bunch of eels was on the way and was making a little bit of progress but it's going to take a little bit longer since they're going to need a whole lot more of eels to pull this off.
Stoick noticed Astrid and changed his direction into hers. He greets Astrid with a smile "Morning lass, I see you're up early too" Astrid greets Stoick back.
"Morning to you too and yes, I have to get to the arena before my students do"
"Well then I guess I shouldn't keep you and let you be on your way, oh, one more thing, if you see Draco before I do, tell him that I need to see him" Astrid hesitantly nodded. Last night she decided to listen to her mom and give the guy space but this is pretty much going agansit that but it's her chief and she can't refuse.
"Thank you, if you find him tell him too meet me in the Great Hall " she nods again then went on her way towards the arena.
(With Draco)
Draco has searched through most of the rooms that were already open and so far none of them has given him anything that would tell him of what happened here. Although most of the rooms that he's been in were rooms that looked more for research but there was two rooms that he's been in that looked like living quarters.
Right now he's made it to the bottom floor where the light began to get faster. The light lead him to a door that was just right of the door that lead him downstairs but when he saw that room with the busted down doors he got curious and wanted to go check it out.
Leaving the lit up path Drco walks over to the two hoverig doors…. Wait what? Draco takes another look at the doors and saw that they were hovering at a slight angle about half a inch or two off the ground. He places one of his hands on the hovering door and tried to push it down but it didn't move or even fully fall down.
This was strange even in Draco's standards but what lied inside the room was something that he was not expecting.
Draco enters the room too see a room full of what looks like frozen people that had what looked to be wings. Looking around the room he's counted so far about sixty-five of these people all in different positions, some looked like they were running from something, a few were on the ground covering their heads, while the rest were in different states. A few were crushed by something and it seemed to keep them like that, and the rest were pinned to something.
What's strange though was when Draco walked up to one and lightly grabbed one by the arm. He felt a heartbeat, so that mean's they're not frozen by ice or something of the sorts but more frozen out of fear.
He tries to pull the arm of the one he was already grabbing but just as he began to pull the arm snapped off and the rest turned to dust. Dropping the arm before it turned to dust as well Draco began to think that from the way they look, it seems that they're frozen in time but how's that possible he doesn't know.
Something catches Draco's eyes when he turned he say one of these people in a featle position. He walks over to it and when standing right in front of it he places a hand on the shoulder. Upon putting his hand on the shoulder something began to happen because what looks to be a ghost of some kind came out of it but that wasn't the only one that it was happening to.
It was happening to all of them. Draco got ready to fight placing his hand on his sword but upon watching he noticed that it looked like they were going backwards as if they were in reverse. Taking his hand off the katana he begins to watch.
From what he's seeing so far is that these people were getting attacked by something or possibly someone but since it's only effecting the beings that were in this room he couldn't tell. Most of them were screaming while others tried to run a couple of them even tried holding the door but from what it looked lie the door was pulled open.
He continued to watch whatever was happening in front of him but after about ten minutes the ghosts vanished. He looked back down at the one at his feet and began to wonder what happened her since it didn't really show all that was happening.
He decided that it would be best if he left the room to leave these people in peace but not long before walking towards the exit he began to feel dizzy. He tried to shake it off but it began to effect the muscles in his legs causing him to fall to his knees.
Eventually he realized what was happening. He was being gased from somewhere. He tries to cover his nose with a little bit of his robe but his arms began to give out and his eyes were getting heavy. A second later he fell to the floor passed out from the gas that filled the room.
(With Astrid)
A couple of hours passed and Astrid had just ended her class and now was on her way to go home to get started on her chores for the day. On her way home she ran into three of her other friends Ally, Maria, and Philia. They were haning out in the plaza in the market area.
The first person to notice Astrid was Maria "Astrid!" Maria called out and the other two look in the direction that Astrid was coming from.
"Hey Maria, Philia, Ally, how are you?" She asks.
"We're good, we're just talking"
"What are you talking about?" Astrid asks.
"Just little things" that didn't really explain anything to her but she could probably already guess a few things that they could be talking about.
"It's something I'm not interest in?" the three girls nodded.
"Ok then I won't ask"
"Well, what have you been doing as of late?" Philia asks.
"Not much, just the usual"
"You mean training the kids, doing chores, and going out in the forest and kill trees? Come on Astrid, you need to loosen up, we can't stay young forever" Ally says placing an arm around Astrid's neck.
"I don't need to loosen up, I'm just busy"
"You seem to be always busy then, you need to take a week off from being 'busy' and try to loosen up, we can get all the girls together and go camp out, just us girls" Maria says.
"Yea, so what do you say Astrid?" the three other girls waited for Astrids answer. Astird honestly didn't want to do but if she doesn't she'll never hear the end of this, also they do have a point.
"Fine, but if it's going to be us then make sure no one else knows, especially Snotlout" Astrid warns. The three girls smiled in victory.
"Great, we'll go camping next week but right now I think we should go to the hall and get something to eat, you want to join us Astrid?" Astrid shook her head.
"Sorry but I have to do my chores before my mom kills me, I'll see you guys later" Astrid left her friends to go on her way to the house.
Upon reaching her house she could hear her mom in the back probably washing clothes. She goes around the house to see her mom doing exactly what she thought she was doing. Her mom notices her and says "Hey dear, since you're here I need you to something for me before you start your chores, I need you to go into town and pick up mom sword from Gobber, I had him repair it but he was busy earlier but now it should be done"
Astrid nods turning herself back towards the plaza and made her way to the blacksmith to pick up her mothers sword. On her way to the forge she could hear the voices of the twins and Snotlout just up ahead of her. She decided to change in the direction of where the voices were coming from and found them between two houses looking out on the other side looking for someone.
"What are you three doing?" her voice startled the three idiots making them quickly turn around to look at her.
"If you must know, we're trying to prank someone" Tuffnut replies.
"I couldn't tell" Astrid gave them a deadpanned look.
"That was the point" she rolled her eyes.
"So, who are you trying to prank this time?"
"It's Draco, he's the only one that we haven't pranked yet but today's going to be the day" the three went back looking out for him.
"How can you be sure if he'll come that way and not the other?"
"Because this is the way he mostly comes from"
"Are you sure he'll come into town?" the three idots let what Astrid think into their heads.
"Well, um… (Looks over to Ruffnut) how can we tell if he'll come into town?" Tuffnut whispers. Ruffnut shrugs her shoulders.
"Also if he was to come to town, he would've been here by now"
"How would you know that?" Snotlout asks sounding a little jealous at the fact that she knows what time he comes into town 'Maybe I should give him another warning' he thought.
"Because he's always coming into town at this time, everytime my class ends he'll be entering town to do who knows what or training useless" while she was talking she remembered that she was doing something for her mom.
"I'll talk to you guys later" she quickly leaves the three idiots to their pranking which won't happen today and goes on her way to the forge.
She arrived at the forge not long after she left Snotlout, Tuffnut and Ruffnut she made it to the forge. She steps up to the window and knocks on the counter "I'm comin'" Gobber's voice could be heard from inside.
"Oh, 'ey Astrid, I take it you're here to pick up you moms sword?" She nods her head.
"Let me go get it, I just got finished with it" Gobber heads over to the table where he had placed her mothers sword.
When he picked it up he looked over it one last time before heading back over to the window handing Astrid the sword "She's good as new, but tell your mom to go easy on it"
"I will, thank you Gobber" she thanked the blacksmith and left heading back to her house.
She returned home quicker then she thought since it took a while to reach the forge but that's probably because she stopped to see what the three idiots were doing. She walks up to the door and when she opens the door she could see her mom was in the kitchen.
Her mom must have heard her come in since she turned her head around with a smile "Welcome back, I see you have my sword" she stops whatever she was doing and walks over to Astrid.
Astrid held out the sword letting her mom take it away. Her mom looked over her sword and smiled "He did wonders"
"He also told me to tell you that you need to go easy on it" her mother laughed.
"Well, I'll be getting on with my chores now" Her mother nods.
(With Fishlegs) (Three Hours Later)
Fishlegs was at the docks with his dad helping the fisherman that came back this morning with a ship load of fish and eels. Fishlegs and his father were both surprised when they gatered this much eels, they honestly didn't think that they would be able to gather this much.
"Son, can you come here and help carry these?" Fishleg's father asked from the ship. Fishlegs layed the net of fish that he was carrying on the docks and went back onto the ship to help out with the eels that his dad was trying to carry.
"With all of these I think Draco's plan will actually work, at least I hope" His fathers nods.
"I agree, even I can't stand the smell of these things, they give off such a horrid smell that would even make me want to leave" he joked but then he went stoic and spoke again.
"Though, right now I'm just wondering what happened to the dragons, it's been dads since they've attacked us and winter isn't close so why did they just disappear like that?" Fishleg thought the same thing but never could come up with an answer.
"I don't know but something's telling me that they're not doing this out of kindness, I feel like they have more intelgince then we think" his father looks at him.
"If that was the case then they're thinking of something big but I hope that's not the case, also I've also just remembered that we haven't heard anything fromt that nightfury for a while either"
"Do you think it died?" Fishlegs asked, deep down he hopes it didn't and it just up and left.
"Don't know but it would be good if it did, that demon was giving us so much trouble"
"Yea but I wish we were able to capture it, it would've been nice to study it"
"I don't think it wouls've been possible to study it, Stoick would've wanted it killed on the spot so even if we were able to take it down it would just be killed" Fishlegs already knew that but it still was disappointing.
"I know, hey dad?" they both dropped the nets that they've been carrying from boat to the docks the whole time they've talked.
"Yes son?"
"Can I go meet up with my friends, also I might be a little late later tonight" His father looked at him questionably.
"What are you doing that'll make you late?"
"Astrid, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and I are going into the caves near the beach, we found somethings in there and we want to check them out" His father eyed him for a second.
"Ok but you better be home before morning" Fishlegs smiles nodding his head.
Fishlegs drops the last net that he was carrying then took off up to the village to meet up with the rest of the gang.
With Fishlegs being heavier then most it took him a little bit longer to get back to the village from the docks even when he's running but when he did reach the village the sound of the twins and Snotlout's voice could be heard.
"Man, he didn't show up" the male twin complained.
"Who didn't show up?" Fishlegs asked approaching the three.
"Draco, we had a prank ready for him but he never showed, we were waiting for three hours" Ruffnut explained.
"I don't think you'll be getting him anytime soon, he may not look it but he may be the smartest person on berk or at least that's what I think"
"Wow, for once Fishlegs isnt the smartest person for once" Snotlout commented. Fishlegs rolled his eyes ignoring the comment.
"Since you guys couldn't prank him what do you plan to do now?"
"We're going to the hall to get something to eat and for the rest we haven't thought that far ahead" Tuffnut explained.
"Hey guys" everyone turned around and saw that it was Astrid walking in their direction.
"Hey Astrid, so you still on for later?" Ruffnut asks throwing her arm around Astrid's neck.
"Yes, what about you Fishlegs?" Fishlegs nods. Snotlout and Tuffnut were confused.
"On for what? What did we miss?" Snotlout asked.
"We're going into those caves that you guys talked about, we found somethings in there but we couldn't go any further do to us not having torches" Fishlegs explained.
"What! How come we weren't invited?" Snotlout asks.
"Because we didn't feel like inviting you" Astrid replies dryly. Snotlout glares at Astrid but she ignores it.
"Lets go get something to eat then we can gather some torches" Astrid, Ruffnut, and Fishlegs walked away heading towards the Great Hall leaving Snotlout and Tuffnut behind.
(With Draco)
Draco woke up with a headache one that felt like he did a whole night of drinking but he recalls that he didn't drink what made it worse was that when he opened his eyes sunlight was beaming into them blinding him and making the headache worse.
Draco placed a head in the way of the sunlight but quickly jerk up when he realized that sunlight was beaming down on him. He takes a look around him and saw that he wasn't in that room anymore. He also saw that he was right outside of the mine.
'What the hel happened?' he questioned not understanding what's happening.
Looking away from the mine and up to the sky he could tell that it wasn't the same day as it was when he went in 'Was I in there that long?' he wondered. He thought that he was only in there for a couple of hours but he guesses that he was in there longer then he thought.
He slowly got on his feet but with whatever gased him down there it's making his balance off a little. Getting back on his feet he thought about going back in there but with the state he's in right now he decided that he should go back to camp to check up with Galaxy then go to the springs to clean up and clear his head.
While he was walking down the trail he couldn't help but think about what he just saw down there. Something like that shouldn't be possible but he's been in dwarven ruins before which were machines but that isnt like them, it was more futurestic.
What really stumped him was how those people or things whatever you can call them, were frozen and not like cold frozen, it reminds him as if they were frozen in time or something of the sorts but for why the one he grabbed turned to dust he could only guess that they're all dead but being stuck in time they still feel alive.
The one reason why he doesn't think that it was just some slow time copy or power is that it's been like that for about 3000 or more years or at least that's what he suspects not knowing the age of the place it's hard to say if they've really been stuck like that for that long, anything's possible though.
"Kolost hi kosaan?" Draco snapped his head up to see that he was standing right above the cove. He was so deep in thought he didn't know that he already reached the cove it didn't even feel that long but he did go from the village to there so that means that the mine is close to the camp.
"I went into the mine that Berk use to use and it lead me into some strange ruins that were different then any ruins I've ever seen" Draco explained as he climbed down into the cove.
"Gelaar" Galaxy could tell that Draco was thinking but with how his faces looks he can tell that he's having a hard time thinking of a way to explain.
"It was like dwarven but more furturistic" Galaxy didn't know anything like that so he wouldn't know what that word meant or what furturistic looks like.
"I don't know how to explain since you've probably never seen anything like it so I can't really describe it to you without it sounding confusing" Draco took a seat infornt of the dead fire pit.
"dreh ni strain hinmaar delah wah gelaar atruk tol we've neh nun us" Draco nods.
Draco gets up off the ground "I'm going to go to the springs" Galaxy nods.
Usually Galaxy would've joined but he can tell that something has tired him out and should leave his brother alone for now. Galaxy watches as his brother climbs up the cove wall exiting the cove.
Once out of sight Galaxy couldn't help but have this gut feeling that something's going to happen soon, not sure how soon but soon. It wasn't a good feeling either it was one that had him put his guard up and alerted.
He guesses that it's probably the fact that this island hasn't been attacked by dragons for a while now and it's making him anxious. If another dragon attack happens it probably won't be a small one.
Since Draco might have token out a general they might be building up and getting ready for a large attack or probably simaltaniuos ones. Dragon's are quite smart but since these ones are under the queens control then they might be not as smart to pull something like that off but them attacking all at once isnt impossible.
He took a quick sniff of the air trying to see if he can sense anything but nothing's come up which is a good thing but since he was just trying to sense for other dragons that doesn't mean something else isnt happening around here.
But nothing else really happens around here it seems like at least to Galaxy, he never understood why humans get so boring when they get older. Back home he and everyone in the family had a lot of things to do to keep them occupied one of his favorites was wrestling but since Draco, Nima, Sal, Ragnar and Frey being the only ones to be able to wrestle him it got boring sometimes but when it did they would come up with something to make it fun again which most of the times it was bets.
He still laughs at some of the bets that he was part of but then he also remembers the ones he lost and he didn't like how they turned out sometimes.
There was a couple of times where he betted that he wouldn't lose a match between Sal, Draco and him. He said if they won he would do something for him but if he won they would have to give him fish everyday but in the end he lost.
Even though he hated what they made him do it was still fun. He wishes they could go back to that time before everything happened but there's no spells that work like that.
Galaxy lets out his version of a sigh before laying down on the ground. He felt exhaugsted, it's probably from worrying about his lost brother but now that he's back he can rest. That's what he thought at least but something caught his nose and it was a similar smell that he hasn't smelt for a while now.
Galaxy looks up at the top of the cavern to see a slim little man crouched down just enough to poke his head up and it seems like that little man noticed that the dragon had spotted him.
"What is it doing?" Galaxy wondered keeping a eye on him.
Draco won't be happy when he finds out about this.
(With Astrid) (Four Hours Later)
The day was ending quicker then they thought so before it got to dark Astrid told Ruffnut and Fishlegs to gather what they might need for the trip into the caves while she goes and make them some torches. The three split up and went off to go grab what they needed while she makes her way to the tunnels and while she was at it she'll grab a couple of pieces of cloth to wrap around the sticks that they'll be using. First she needs to stop by and grab some cloth from the forge.
Reaching the forge didn't take long so when she arrived she was met with Gobber waiting at the window "'ey lass, what brings you to me shop?"
"I came to grab some cloth if you have any extra leftover" Gobber raised a brow at her.
"What is it for?"
"Ruffnut, Fishlegs, and I are going to head into the tunnels near the beach and we're needing the cloth to make torches" Astrid explains. He eyed her for a second before speaking.
"Ok lass but be careful in those tunnels there's no telling how far those go and we don't need to loose more people then we already have" Astrid nods. Gobber walks over to a table which had a couple of pieves of metal and cloth sitting there. He picks up the extra pieces of cloth and walks back over to the window handing the cloth out to Astrid.
"Here ya go lass, now remember what I said" Astrid thanks the blacksmith and makes her way towards the forest.
The way she was going had a little dirt path that led to the beach. Entering the forest she could already see a couple of branches that would be perfect sizes for the torches.
Astrid walks over to the braches and picked them up but before continuing onwards she looked over the branches to make sure that there was nothing wrong with them. Not finding anything wrong with them she places them under he arm and goes back to walking to the beach.
Since it usually takes about thirty minutes to reach the beach from the village Astrid thought it would be a good chance to think over a couple of things. The first that pops into her head was why did that mace that they found looked familiar but she can't put her figure on where she's seen it.
It was like she's seen it somewhere that wasn't here but she hasn't left Berk or even been off the island so her ever seeing something like that in her life is near impossible. She remembers that she saw some sort of crest but she couldn't get a good look because of it being so dark in there.
This time she plans to take another look and see if she can find out where that stuff came from and maybe it'll help her figure out why she feels like she's seen it before.
What she's going to do when she found's out where she's seen it, she doesn't know but at least that's one thing that isn't bugging her anymore now for the next thing bugging her was the whole thing with her parents thinking that she's been acting weird. She knows what they mean but isn't it normal to have those kind of days?
The only thing that could come to mind is still the whole thing against Draco but her mom told her just to leave him alone and eventually he'll come around and she listened to her mom but she can't let him walk over her or anyone else.
Also the whole thing with him training useless is still bothering her. Yes, people mostly Gobber say that he's not doing it for anything but just to help out and past the time. That can't be the only reason can it?
"Astrid"
Doesn't he see that it's pointless to train Hiccup, he's not going to be like them no matter who trains him, he's just too weak. Astrid was now getting frustrated from just thinking about it.
"Astrid!" Astrid snaps to Midgard turning her head to see that it was Ruffnut running towards her.
"Oh, Hey Ruffnut, did you get everything?" Astrid asked. Ruffnut nods.
"Yes, how about you?" Astrid nods her head.
"Yes, I got the cloth and some branches that we can use for torches" she gestured to the branches that were under her arm.
"Where's the cloth?" Astrid turns to show her carrying a small sactchel on her side.
"They're in here"
"Great now have you seen Fishlegs yet?" Astrid shakes her head.
"No how about you?" it was Ruffnut's turn to shake her head.
"No but he'll catch up, maybe" the two girls went quite and that's how it was for a while until Astrid stopped looking around.
"What is it?" Ruffnut asks looking around with her.
"I don't know but I thought I just saw something in the corner of my eye"
"You're probably just seeing things because I've had those moments before so I wouldn't worry about it too much" Astrid wasn't sure but something about that figure seemed too real to be something in her head.
"Hey, Ruffnut, Astrid" the two girls turn around to see that it was Fishlegs… with Snotlout and Tuffnut following him.
"What the hel Fish, why are they here?" Ruff wasn't happy.
"I'm sorry but they made me bring them" Fishlegs lowered his head. Ruffnut sighed.
"Fishlegs you got to stand up for yourself oneday" Astrid comments.
"Oh, I don't think that'll happen" Snotlout says.
"Besides we're bored and we thought it would be fun to tag along" Tuffnut jumps in.
It was Astrid's turn to let out a sigh but this one was out of annoyance "Fine, you can come along but if you cause any trouble we're going to leave you in those caves, got it?" the two nodded their heads.
"Good, now lets go we're burning daylight and the tunnels should just be up ahead" with the gang all here they'll be able to cover more ground but Astrid would never say that to them because they wouldn't let it down if she did.
It wasn't long before they reached the beach and in the distance they can see the entrance of the tunnels that they entered in yesterday.
"Ok, when we go in we're going to split up to cover more ground and if you find anything call out so we can come check it out" Astrid explains.
"What if we find treasure?" Snotlout asks.
"Call out and if you try to take any of it without any of us knowing you're going to get it, understand?" Astrid warned but mostly towards Snotlout.
"Fine, I won't touch anything, can we go now?"
While they approached the entrance Astrid and Fishlegs began to make the torches that they'll be using in those tunnels and when they were done they handed one to Ruffnut, one to Fishlegs and the last one Astrid held onto.
"What about us?" Snotlout asks.
"We didn't think you would be coming so I didn't grab more on our way here" Astrid replied bluntly.
Next Astrid pulls out a small piece of both flint and steel "Ok, hold out the torches and Ruff can you hold mine for a second?" She hands her torch over to Ruffnut. Fishlegs and Ruffnut held the torches in the middle of the small circle.
Astrid began to hit both the steel and flint together until the cloth on the torches lit on fire. After the torches were fully lit Astrid placed the flint and steel back in her satchel. Ruffnut handed Astrids torch back to her.
"I'll take the lead and when we're far enough in then we'll split up" everyone nods.
Astrid leads the way as they walked into the tunnel and just like last time they all end up having a headache but this one was not as bad as the one the first time they entered but it still hurt none the less.
After a couple of seconds the headaches stop "What was that?" Snotlout asks rubbing his head.
"I don't know but it happened the first time we came in here, though the first one hurt a lot more then this one" Fishlegs explained.
"Well then this is going to be the last time we're coming in here, I don't want to loose anymore brain cells" Everyone looks at Snotlout.
"Snotlout, I don't think you had any brain cells to start out with" Astrid comments.
"Hey!" Astrid ignores him and continues on walking deeper into the tunnels.
Astrid led the group all the way until they reached the point they were at yesterday but this time the crates and barrels plus the mace wasn't there anymore. This surprise Fishlegs, Ruffnut, and Astrid.
"Wasn't it right here yesterday?" Fishlegs asks clearly confused.
"It was but it's been moved, look" Astrid points down to see that a trail led deeper into the tunnels.
"Who or what moved it?" Fishlegs asked.
"I don't know but instead of splitting up I think we sould stick together, we don't know who or what moved it but we should be apart if it's something we need all fo us for"
"Why don't we just head back, if someone is here then we should tell the chief" says Fishlegs
"We're adults, we can handle this, we can't rely on the adults for the rest of our lives"
"Um… guys, come take a look at these tracks again, you might want to see this" Tuffnut was standing over the tracks.
Everyone stood over the tracks looking over them once again. At first they didn't understand what he was talking about but when Fishlegs spoke up saying "There's no footprints" everyone now understood.
"How is that possible?" Astrid asked hovering her torch over the tracks.
"I didn't know crates could move on their own, can they?" Tuffnut asks. Astrid couldn't help but facepalm.
"They can't, a non living object can't move on it's own so the only thing that comes to mind is that someone was smart enough to cover their tracks as they pull or pushed the crates" Fishlegs explains.
"That's not a bad idea but how could they when they had to come here on multiple occasions?" Ruffnut points out.
"I don't know but it's not like you're thinking of anything"
"I could try to shine some light on this argu…" Fishlegs words died in his mouth. Everyone looked at him wondering why he stopped.
They took a closer look at him and saw that his eyes were following something that was behind them. Everyone slowly turned their heads in the direction that Fishlegs was looking in and what they saw shocked them.
They couldn't really tell because of it being so dark but they could see the outline of a big creature walking out of a hole that was in the wall and down the tunnel that they were following.
"Oh no you're not" Ruffnut says catching a scared Fishlegs by the collar of his tunic.
"Same goes for you" she turns to look at Snotlout who was slowly backing up towards the exit.
"I-I just remembered that I needed to help my dad with something, yea that's it" he lies trying to leave.
"Come on Snotlout, you're beginning to sound like Hiccup now" Snotlout stops in his tracks and glares right at Ruffnut.
"I'm nothing like that twig, I'm more of a man then him, come on lets go" he walks pass everyone grabbing the torch that Ruffnut was holding and took the lead. Ruffnut then looks at Astrid.
"Works everytime" Ruffnut smile. Astrid shook her head.
Fishlegs was eventually let go but still being held onto by Ruffnut dragging him down the tunnel that the creature went down.
(One hour of walking down the tunnel)
The tunnel went down pretty far, to the point where it was slowly beginning to get hard to breathe due to the lack of air as well the pressure from going so far underground. This was the first time that they've experience something like this and they weren't expecting it.
"Hey, is it just me or is it getting harder to breathe?" Tuffnut asks.
"It's not just you,"
"I'm begiinigng to ffeell dizzyz" Snotlout wasn't making any since.
"Hey Astrid, I know I was the one to suggest that we go into these caves but I'm beginning to think that we should…" a thud cut Ruffnut off.
Everyone turned around to see that it was Snotlout passed out on the floor. Tuffnut walks over to his fallen friend and slowly picks him up placing one arm over his shoulder.
"I think you're right, this is getting to much to handle" Astrid usually wouldn't back out of a challenge like this since this is something new but with everyone getting dizzy and light headed they don't know if they'll all be able to stay awake for much longer.
"Come lets go…" another thud was heard. This time it was Tuffnut.
"Shit, come on we have to hel…" again cut off by another thud. It was Fishlegs.
"Great, we're not… going to be… able to drag… them all… up" Ruffnut couldn't finish the rest of her sentence before dropping to the floor next to Astrid.
Astrid had to make a decision and the only one she could think of was to get back to the surface and get some help. It didn't feel right to leave them though, but if it means saving them then she'll do it.
After about ten steps her legs gave out causing to fall on all fours and her breathing started to slow. Her vision was also about to give out 'Is this really it?' she thought. Another couple seconds passed then her arms were next to go.
She was now completely on the floor, her eyes became heavy and her breathing was almost nothing now. The last thing she heard before totally passing out was the sounds of multiple clicking noises closing in on them.