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Chapter 14-a Fight for peace

"I can't take it, let us out!" Tuffnut yelled as he rattled the bars with a cup.

"Would you quit it! They won"t do anything even if you beg," Snoutlot said dismissively, he had been sitting in a corner quietly. None of them knew how long they had been in the dungeon for, even though it was only few hours. Astrid was looking around at Snoutlot, Fishlegs and the twins were before trying to look over into the cell where Hiccup was in. The boy had curled up, his head buried in his legs. The others heard him crying, they understood why.

"Hiccup," Astrid began.

"Don"t say it!" Hiccup said.

Astrid paused before asking "What do you think I going to say?"

"That I was a fool, who was too stubborn to think we could change everything. That Merida and I would have a happy life together!" He explained, letting his tears roll.

"Well first, no that wouldn't going to say and Second, you're not giving up. Are you?" Astrid replied. Hiccup took a moment to think, he felt everything was lost. Soon their fathers and the warriors would fight to the death and they couldn"t stop it.

"I don't know how to fix this and I don't know if I'll see Merida again," Hiccup explained.

"Hiccup, I'm not sure how but we can only hope!" Astrid said.

"Yeah, a miracle to brake us out would be perfect right now" Tuffnut said but not in a hopeful way. Astrid sighed, as she sat down, Hiccup looked up at the barred window, trying to think of something, anything to escape and thinking of Merida he said,

"I hope you're alright Merida,

At the same time, Merida was crying uncontrollably, she buried her face in her bedsheets. She couldn't believe it was happening again. Her dad was going to kill Hiccup and it was her fault. She also was angry that her mum as just stood there and did nothing. She slowly sat up and took a deep breath she got herself to the floor and lifted her head, she wasn't going to sit here and let people be kill-especially Hiccup. She needed to do something.

Merida wiped her face and grabbed a large plate. A guard was posted outside her door, she moved by the door and screamed "HELP, HELP ME A VIKING IS IN HERE!

It did the trick. The guard burst in, looking around frantically. Merida raised the plate and

Bang

The guard was knocked out cold, Merida dropped the now bent plate and dashed out as quickly as she could. Merida's redhair flashing as she ran, she headed toward the dungeons, she turned a corner and was confronted by guards. The two men turned towards her but before they could speak, Merida ran off down the hall.

"Stop!" one of the men yelled and chased after her but Merida wasn't going to be caught like that, she tried to lose them but they where but they weren't giving up on the chase, Merida started to feel tired, thinking she was about to get caught when she heard a bang, then groans followed by fudge. Merida turned to see the two men were unconscious and Hamish, Hubert and Harris standing over them, holding frying pans.

"Thanks boys!" Merida said grinning to them who returned the gesture. "Know a short cut to the dungeons?" she asked remembering that her brothers knew some secret passageways. They nodded and Hamish and Hubert went over to a torch and held their hands together. Then Harris rushed up and his brothers helped pushed him up, he pulled torch down til it clicked and a wall opened. "Yes, I owe you boys the biggest cake ever made!" The triplets smiled at this and the four of them rushed down the steps.

The Viking teens were more than surprised when the wall of the dungeon started to move. Hiccup stood up watched with the others and he felt his heart leap it when he saw Merida walk through the opening with her brothers.

"Merida!" he cried, tearing up. Merida ran over to him, hugging him through the bars. "I so happy to see you!"

"Me too. You should thank my brothers!" Merida replied as the boys found the keys the cells.

"Oh, make sense," Astrid commented. She remembered Merida tell them about her brothers and how they were mischievous troublemakers which had impressed Ruffnut and Tuffnut.

"Genius!" Tuff said as Harris unlocked the door, Merida opened Hiccups cell and greeted him with a kiss. They heard groans, they turned to see Hamish, Hubert and Harris being grossed out, this made the teens laugh.

"You do this when you're older, you know!"Merida said smirking.

"Ur we have bigger things to think about," Fishlegs interjected .

"Fishlegs is right. We need to stop this war." Hiccup said to them.

"But how, none of them will listen" Snoutlot replied.

"Then we'll make them listen," Merida answered squeezing Hiccup's hand "no matter what they do."

"But they probably be miles away how can't…Tuffnut question but stopped mid sentence, everyone give him a look. it soon dawn on him "oh, right, Dragons."

"The dragons are probably tied up outside, let's go!" Merida said, with that they rush down the tunnel and the secret door closed, just as someone entered the dungeons.

The teens followed the triplets down the passage ways for a long time before they reached the exit that led outside. They squinted their eyes as the sun blinded them as they emerged from the dark passageway. It didn't take long to find the dragons, all tied up with ropes and chains. It was obvious that the Scots had never dealt with them before.

"Amateurs!" Tuffnut murmured as Merida and Hiccup rushed over to Toothless who was under a chain net with his limbs wrapped up. The Night Fury's eyes widened he was purring and pulling at his bindings when he saw his friends.

"We so sorry bud," Hiccup apologised holding his dragon's head. Toothless knew it wasn't their fault. Merida and Hiccup set to work they pulled the net off him, while the their friends and the triplets released the other dragons. Once they were free, the teens quickly checked over their dragons.

"Ok let's go!" Hiccup said as he climbed onto Toothless. The princess was about to climb on but,

"MERIDA!" She turned to find her mother marching toward them. Hiccup and the others were about to panic but Merida wasn't afraid and stood her ground.

"Mum. I don't care what you're going to say. I am going to stop this fight, even if you..,'' but to her and everyone else's s surprised, Elinor reached for her daughter and hugged her.

I'll never hate you for doing the right thing," Elinor said softly. Merida hugged her back so was grateful for her mum's reassured. Hiccup smiled at the warm scene, the two passed ,Elinor then said, "Please come back safely," "both of you," he was taken aback for he thought the queen would despise him but Elinor him without prejudice. The boy nodded then he helped Merida upon his dragon. The queen gathered her sons and watched at a safe distance as the dragon riders took off.

"They're escaping," yelled one of the guards as the men arrived. Elinor looked over as the they started to load their bows.

"Hold your fire," Elinor shouted to them, holding out her hand.

"But, but your.."

"I SAID HOLD YOUR FIRE!" she repeated loudly which made all the men obey. She looked back to watch her daughter and her friends fly off. She said a silent prayer for them all.

Far in the highlands, a the bottom the cliff. Stoick waited for the Scot's to come like a predator waiting for its prey.

"Ur Stoick," Gobber asked his friend when he walked over. "I know you suddenly planned to fight the Scots out of the blue and the Vikings were wondering why?" Gobber waited but Stoick didn't say anything. Another thing he thought was why hadn't Stoick asked Hiccup and Dragon Riders to come and help, they would have a greater chance of winning if they joined them. He didn't understand. Gobber was about to asked that question when they noticed in the distance, they saw figures in the distance it was the Scots.

"They're here!" Stoick said to Gobber. The chief stood up to ready his warriors.

The dragons flew as fast as they could. Hiccup was concentrating on the journey to the battlefield, he felt Merida holding him close. Merida was scared, fearing that they wouldn't reach their dads and everyone would die. Her tears dripped from her eyes she couldn't control them. Hiccup took one of the princess's hand and kissed her knuckles. "We'll find them, Mer. Trust me," Merida squeezed his hand at his comforting words. Suddenly out of nowhere a willow of the wisp appeared, the Night Fury stopped flying and hovered the dragons followed suit and hovered.

"What's that?" Fishlegs questioned.

"Willow of the wisp!," Merida answered, as she said this more wisps appeared, the wisps were leading them away. He remembered them from the first day he met Merida and also that they lead to their fate. He looked over to Merida and she nodded knowing that the wisps were leading them to their fathers.

"Come on let's go!" Hiccup said and they started following the wisps.

"Wait a second, how do we know we could trust those things?" Snoutlot called thinking they were some kind of ghosts.

"Stop being superstitious. There's something more to worry about. Now come on." Astrid yelled back to Snotlout, he and the rest of the Dragon Riders flew to reach Hiccup, Merida and Toothless.

Furgus spotted the Vikings as they appeared coming from the forest. "Right, on my command," said the Bear King. His clan along with MacGuffin, Dingwall and Macintosh clans readied themselves, the young men the former suiters of Merida were nervous and scared to battle the Vikings. Silence fall across the field, waiting for the other to make to first move. At last, both men yelled and the Scots and Vikings charged. A clash of swords and axes filled the air when they collided, some men used their shields as weapons to knock out their enemy. All the time Stoick and Furgus fought forward the warriors, wanting a one on one with the other.

As they followed the wisps, The teens and dragons started to hear the sound of the fight becoming louder, they all headed toward the sound. When the last Willow of the Wisps disappeared, they could see now the battle unfolding in front of them

"How are we going to stop this, there's so many of them," Tuffnut pointed out. They thought for a moment before Merida spoked up.

"If we have the dragons can make a wall of fire along with Bark and Belch"s gas and Stormfly"s spikes. It would slow the down and hopefully block them from fighting,"

"That's brilliant!" Astrid said to her friend.

"Well come on" Hiccup called and with that, all of them, launched themselves down to the battlefield. Sending fire down, blocking the confused Scots and Vikings away.

"Is that?" one viking exclaimed pointing up the dragons. Vikings watched also as the Scots who look on in wonder. Merida smiled at her plan was working but fell when she spotted Furgus and Stoick slowly approaching each other weapons at the ready.

"Hiccup!" Merida cried shaking his shoulder and pointed to show him. In a flash, Hiccup had Toothless dived down and at the right time. He shot a plasma blast between the two leaders causing them to fly backwards through the air. Both men were confused as they got up.

"What in old Haggis was that?" Furgus said rubbing his face. Stoick clearly knew what had caused the blast as he brushed the dust off himself. The men looked up as the night fury flew and landed on a small cliff. Hiccup jumped off then turned and noticed Merida was clearly nervous.

"Mer, are you ready?" Hiccup softly asked, holding out his hand. Merida took a moment and nodded, she took his hand and he assisted her down. The two walked near the edge to face the crowd.

"Before you start yelling and fighting again, we want you to listen and you will listen," Hiccup began, speaking loud enough for everyone to hear.

"We know this feud has gone on for too long." Merida added. "And we're here to stop this madness."

They heard the crowd murmuring mostly saying how ridiculous this was.

"You may think we know nothing because we are young," Merida continued trying to keep a calm as she could "But we have our experiences and ideas and we want to make changes for the better."

"And we're not afraid to admit when we were wrong," Hiccup added "we wanted to share something that we kept from you all, knowing the danger it would to bring but I don't want to be afraid to say, I love you Mer!" Hiccup confess looking at Merida.

"And I love you too Hic!" Merida said softly smiling at one another.

"Oh Hiccup, you really done it this time." Gobber groaned burying his face in his hands, he was joined by the other warriors who grumbled in disbelief.

"I don't think it was an accident but I fully believe it was fated to meet and we were scared that you would try to separate us!" Hiccup stated.

"I was most surprised to fall in love with anyone but now I wouldn't change it for anything!" Merida added.

As they spoke, the young lords had sneaked up the cliff to try to save Merida. Just as they reached to the cliff and they were about to jump attack, when dragons and their riders appeared to front of them. They had readied themselves just in case someone planned a sneak attack.

"We have dragons and we're not afraid to use them!" Tuffnut said to the young lords. Looking at the terrifying faces of the dragons, young MacGuffin and young Macintosh dropped their spears and wee Dingwall changed colour and fainted.

Hiccup carried on, "From the time we have spent together we have realised that we are all cut from the same cloth. Our food, our land, our values and our sense of community.'' he hoped the elders were listening.

"Aye, we are same but our hate blinds us from seeing it. This feud has gone too long, do we even know what started this war in the first place?" Merida question aloud. Hiccup and Merida noticed the adults murmuring, the two felt like they were possibly getting somewhere, they were encouraged to continue. Hiccup carried on by asking,

"How could our ancestors think that fighting would solve everything, how could war and hate and blood solve anything?" The Scots and Vikings looked at another. Thinking over the question there was further murmurings perhaps they could see sense in Hiccups words.

"We don't expect that you all will agree with us, but we are pleading with you to stop this battle, let's not repeat our past, stop the blood shed now before people we know and value and love, die or are maimed."

Merida stepped forward and continue, "We plead with you all to seek a way to peace, to understanding and to love, that's all we ask," Merida said, there was nothing left but silence. No one moved which filled the moment with suspense. The teens wondered what they should say until they saw their fathers march towards each other until they were a just a few feet away from each other. Hiccup noticed Merida shaking, she was visibly scared. Hiccup squeezed her hand to try to reassure her. Stoick and Furgus stood and stared at each other looking menacing and as if fight. Everyone watched, nobody murmured, they were staring at each other for what seamed like an age

Both men took each other's arms and shook it.

"this feud…" Furgus began.

"…is over" Stoick finished.

the warriors took each other by the arms the was a gasp by the armies, soon the solders and the other dragon rider celebrated, high fiveing and fist pumping. Hiccup and Merida couldn't believe it. they done it. the princess started crying with relief, burying her face into Hiccup's shoulder. He held her in a tight hug in his arms, thanking the gods for letting them be together.

Stoick and Furgus looked up at their children, smiling warmly before the men nodded and turned.

"Well, they definitely a perfect match if you ask me!" Gobber suddenly said as he joined them. "If they can put a stop to an endless war, they could do anything!" then the men saw the viking boy and the redheaded princess looking happily at each other and they both leaned in to kiss.

"Aye," Stoick said agreeing proudly as Merida and Hiccup pulled apart and hugged, Toothless purred to his best friends and rubbed his head into Hiccup and then Merida. All three smiled brightly down to the crowd. They knew their love had conquer all today.