Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons

Chapter 11

Hiccup's POV

I sleep really good for about five hours. But I suddenly wake up when it is still dark outside without being able to breath. I try really hard but it just ain't working. I feel a huge pain in the side of my chest and it feels like I'm about to past out. I still can't breath, can't move, can't scream. I hear a choking, gurggling sound from the back of my throat. Jack quickly open his eyes and look at me.

"Hiccup, what are you..." He suddenly stops, jumping out of bed and runs over to me.

"Hiccup!" He screams looking like he don't know what to do. And suddenly I can breath agin. I drag in so much air as I can and hyperventilate. I look up just in time to see a dark shadow disappear through the wall. I try to speak, saying I'm okay but I can't get the breathing right yet.

The door to our room slams open,revealing Merida and Rapunzel.

"What is happening in here?" Merida half screams. The two girls run over to Jack next to the bed I'm sitting in.

"I-It was Pitch... One of P-Pitch's shadows." I chough out.

"In here?" Screams Jack.

"I-It went throw t-the wall." I answer pointing to were the shadow had been.

"But Pitch gave us to the end of the week?" Panicks Rapunzel.

"Maybe he know our answer is no?" Whispers Merida, white as a sheet. I have never seen her scared before. I notice she is looking down at my chest so I do to. I immediately drag up the covers when I see a collection of blood on my upper waist. I know what it is. It's one of my biggest scars, I got it the night after my mum had died when my dad slammed me across the room and I had broken a window with the fall (That had made him even angryer) and the glass had made a gash in my stumach. It wasn't so big but it needed stitches so once in a while it bursted and now it was clear open.

I resisted the impulse to wrap my arms around it and met Meridas gaze.

"Rapunzel, Jack, could we get some privacy?" She asked gesturing to me and herself.

Rapunzel and Jack silently leave the room hand in hand. When the door closes Merida walk over to check that they weren't spying.

She returned back to me. I am still panting but not so much. I just wish she could get out of here so I could fix the wound, but in the same time I wished nothing more than for her to stay.

She drags a chair from the corner and sits on it right next to me. She sits silent for a minute looking like she's trying to find words.

"I heard you and Jack talking last night" she finally says. My heart gets stuck in my throat. She knows my secrets and now (If she didn't before) she must really think I'm a pathetic freak. I look down at my knees. It was stupid of me to think for even a second that we might happen. She was the bravest, smartest most beutiful girl I know and I was a beaten up, sick, pathetic Hiccup.

I can't meet her blue eyes. She cups my chin and forces me to.

"Hiccup, it's not your fault and there's nothing wrong with you becouse of it. You don't need to hide it, you need help."

Had I really hear right? Was she serious? She let go of my chin but I keep her gaze. "I can't get medical help, they would want to know how it happened. I don't have anywhere else to go than my father." I say in a surprisingly steady voice.

"Yes, you need seriously medical help; But that wasn't the kind of help I meant. You need to let us in to your life and help you Hiccup!" She said, pointing to my heart. I feel how tears are about to show in my eyes. I hadn't cried once since the week before my mother died. It was like if I were just to sad for crying. And after that when I got beaten I couldn't show as weak I had to,'Take it like a man'.