Fall From Grace: Dart's Pain

Chapter 5: Choices Are Made

Fall From Grace: Dart's Pain

Chapter 5: Choices Are Made

The two months went by, and in that time Pouncer and Ruffrunner training had been progressing quite well. For Dart however, things were not so great. Ever since the fight with Ruffrunner, Dart had become cold, distant even, and it worried his family a lot. He was especially cold to his siblings and pretty much ignored them all together.

However, he had just gotten ungrounded and was ready to put his plan into action within the coming days.

However, just because he was grounded did not mean he was just going to sit there in self-pity; he decided to think about what Ruffrunner had said to him. 'Well if I make you so unhappy, why don't you just leave!' That sentence had been replaying in his head non-stop, and after thinking about it for the first month of his grounding, he decided that he would do just that.
For the second month of his grounding, Dart had been planning. Planning how he would leave and get revenge. Then it hit him! The perfect plan fell into place. Instead of just trying to overthrow Ruffrunner, which would also involve overthrowing Pouncer since the defenders would be an issue, he was going to create his own kingdom and then take over the Hidden World.

This made Dart stop and think about all the stories that his father had told him about when he was with Hiccup and how they constantly fought Warlords and other threats. This made Dart smile, "Yeah, that's it! A Warlord, that's what I'll become! I'll become the most powerful Warlord the Hidden World has ever seen! I'll be the most power Warlord New Berk has ever seen!" he shouted to himself triumphantly.

Dart was very pleased with how his plan was coming together and all he needed to do now was find away to leave without anyone noticing. A few options crossed his mind: fake his death, fake getting dragon-napped, even leaving a decoy made of whatever he could find. In the end, Dart decided that just leaving in the middle of the night without a trace was going to be the best. All he had to do was wait till nightfall and he'd be gone.

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The day was drawing to a close and the sun was setting, as the time got closer for Dart to enacted his plan, he stared to doubt himself. 'If I go though with this, they all see me as a villain... is that what I want? Do I want to be seen as evil?' Dart thought to himself. 'Even though I won't be evil- just powerful and intimidating to get my point across- will they see it that way? Probably not. If I do this, then I have to accept the role of a villain too. Very well, it seems I have no other choice. If I have to be evil to get my point across, fine, I'll do it.'

With his mind finally made up, Dart went outside to go wait for the rest of his family to arrive for dinner and have one last meal with them.

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The family was enjoying the fish dinner that was caught earlier that evening while discussing the events of the day. And, not to Dart's surprise, the compliments of how well Ruffrunner and Pouncer's training had be going began. Dart just sat there in silence. He didn't need to say anything and he wouldn't contribute to the conversation at hand by saying anything anyway. So he just stayed silent and watched as his family continued on talking as if he were invisible.

As Dart finished up his portion of the meal he was about to get up and return to his spot in the den hoping to make a quiet exit, but before he could, his family seemed to all of the sudden remember his presence there.

"What about you Dart? How was your day?" Pouncer asked as she turned her attention to her other brother.

"Oh, it was fine. Just stayed here at the den all day as normal," Dart answered back, making sure his true emotions were not shown in his facial expressions or voice.